The mean weight of a box of cereal filled by a machine is 15.0 ounces, with a standard deviation of 0.2 ounce. If the weights of all the boxes filled by the machine are normally distributed, what percent of the boxes will weigh the following amounts? (Round your answers to two decimal places.) (a) less than 14.7 ounces % (b) between 14.8 and 15.2 ounces %
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!
The mean weight of a box of cereal filled by a machine is 15.0 ounces, with a standard deviation of 0.2 ounce. If the weights of all the boxes filled by the machine are
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(b) between 14.8 and 15.2 ounces
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