A company produces ceramic floor tiles that are supposed to have a surface area of 16 square inches. Due to variability in the manufacturing process, the actual surface area has a normal distribution with a mean of 16.1 square inches and a standard deviation of 0.2 square inches. The proportion of tiles produced by the process with a surface area less then 16 square inches is?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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A company produces ceramic floor tiles that are supposed to have a surface area of 16 square inches. Due to variability in the manufacturing process, the actual surface area has a
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