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Author: Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen, Jay L. Devore

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 7.6, Problem 78E

A machine that cuts corks for wine bottles operates in such a way that the distribution of the diameter for the corks produced is well approximated by a normal distribution with mean 3 cm and standard deviation 0.1 cm. The specifications call for corks with diameters between 2.9 and 3.1 cm. A cork not meeting the specifications is considered defective. (A cork that is too small leaks and causes the wine to deteriorate. A cork that is too large doesn’t fit in the bottle.) What proportion of corks produced by this machine are defective?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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