Answered: The Acme Company manufactures widgets.…

Big Ideas Math A Bridge To Success Algebra 1: Student Edition 2015

1st Edition

ISBN:9781680331141

Author:HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

Publisher:HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

Chapter11: Data Analysis And Displays

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 5CR

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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 54 ounces and a standard deviation of 9 ounces.

Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the Empirical Rule (see image below). Do not use normalcdf on your calculator.

Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions.

a) 99.7% of the widget weights lie between and

b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 45 and 81 ounces? %

c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 72 ?

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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