The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with mean 1252 and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1400 chocolate chips? (b) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1025 chocolate chips? (c) What proportion of bags contains more than 1175 chocolate chips? (d) What is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?

The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with mean 1252 and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1400 chocolate chips? (b) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1025 chocolate chips? (c) What proportion of bags contains more than 1175 chocolate chips? (d) What is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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