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Get Full Access to The Practice Of Statistics - 5 Edition - Chapter 7.3 - Problem 55
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What is the probability that a randomly selected coke bottle contains less than 295 ml?

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Problem 55

Bottling cola A bottling company uses a filling machine to fill plastic bottles with cola. The bottles are supposed to contain 300 milliliters (ml). In fact, the contents vary according to a Normal distribution with mean $$\mu=298$$ ml and standard deviation $$\sigma=3$$ ml.

(a) What is the probability that a randomly selected bottle contains less than 295 ml ? Show your work.

(b) What is the probability that the mean contents of six randomly selected bottles are less than 295 ml? Show your work.

Step-by-Step Solution:

Step 1 of 3
There should be X amount of cola filled in each of the plastic bottles. It follows a normal distribution.

The mean of the distribution is

The standard deviation is

Step 2 of 3

Step 3 of 3

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