Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
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ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 27PS

The fill amount of bottles of a soft drinks is normally distributed, with a mean of 2.0 liters and a deviation of 0.05 liter. If you select a random sample of 25 bottles, what is the probability that the sample mean will be

a. between 1.99 and 2.0 liters?

b. below 1.98 liters?

c. greater than 2.01 liters?

d. The probability is 99 % that the sample mean amount of soft drink will be at least how much?

e. The probability is 99 % that the sample mean amount of soft drink will be between which two values (symmetrically distributed around the mean)?

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