The weight, in kilograms, of cereal in a box can be modelled by a normal distribution with Mean ? and standard deviation 5.4 kg. Given that 10% of boxes contains less than 17 kg. Find. a. The value of ?. b. The percentage of boxes that contain more than (17+4) kg. c. If the machine settings are adjusted so that the weight of cereal in a box is normally distributed with mean (17+3) kg and standard deviation of ?. Given that the probability of boxes contains between 17kg and (17+6) kg is 0.9671, find the value of ?.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
The weight, in kilograms, of cereal in a box can be modelled by a normal distribution with Mean ? and
standard deviation 5.4 kg. Given that 10% of boxes contains less than 17 kg. Find.
a. The value of ?.
b. The percentage of boxes that contain more than (17+4) kg.
c. If the machine settings are adjusted so that the weight of cereal in a box is
distributed
boxes contains between 17kg and (17+6) kg is 0.9671, find the value of ?.
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