Frito Lay did a study on the weights of their bags of corn chips. It was found that the weight is normally distributed with a mean of 22 oz and standard deviation of 0.70 oz. If a sample of 35 bags are randomly selected, find the probability that their sample mean is less than 21.5 ounces. A. Label and shade the normal distribution curve to model this problem.
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
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
Frito Lay did a study on the weights of their bags of corn chips. It was found that the weight is
A. Label and shade the normal distribution curve to model this problem.
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