1.) 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 μ = 298 ml and standard deviation σ = 3 ml. (a) What is the probability that an individual bottle contains less than 295 ml? Please draw a picture to illustrate the probability

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1.) 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 μ = 298 ml and standard deviation σ = 3 ml.

(a) What is the probability that an individual bottle contains less than 295 ml? Please draw a picture to illustrate the probability

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