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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

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The port of South Louisiana, located along 54 miles of the Mississippi River between New
Orleans and Baton Rouge, is the largest bulk cargo port in the world. The U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers reports that the port handles a mean of 4.5 million tons of cargo per week (USa
today, September 25, 2012). Assume that the number of tons of cargo handled per week is
normally distributed with a standard deviation of .82 million tons.
a. what is the probability that the port handles less than 5 million tons of cargo per week?
b. what is the probability that the port handles 3 or more million tons of cargo per week?

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