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A chocolate bar is produced with an advertised mass of 200 g. A consumer organisation finds that the mass of the chocolate bar is norma
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A chocolate bar is produced with an advertised mass of 200 g.
A consumer organisation finds that the mass of the chocolate bar is normally distributed with a mean of
200.4 g and a standard deviation of 0.05 g.
a) Find the proportion of the chocolate bars produced that have a) mass within one standard
deviation of the mean.
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Answer:
The proportion of the chocolate bars produced that have mass within one standard deviation of the mean is 0.6826 = 68.26%.
Step-by-step explanation:
Normal Probability Distribution:
Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.
In a set with mean
and standard deviation
, the zscore of a measure X is given by:
The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.
A consumer organization finds that the mass of the chocolate bar is normally distributed with a mean of 200.4 g and a standard deviation of 0.05 g.
This means that
a) Find the proportion of the chocolate bars produced that have mass within one standard deviation of the mean.
pvalue of Z when X = 200.4 + 0.05 = 200.9 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 200.4 – 0.05 = 199.9.
X = 200.9
X = 199.9
0.8413 – 0.1587 = 0.6826
The proportion of the chocolate bars produced that have mass within one standard deviation of the mean is 0.6826 = 68.26%.