Question

While working at Jimmy John's last week, Hal noticed that he was running out of lettuce and became suspicious that the manufacturer was underfilling the lettuce bags. To see if the bags have the stated weight of 15 pounds, he randomly selected 13 bags and found a sample mean of 14.39 pounds with a sample standard deviation of 0.539 pounds. Is this

Answer 1

Yes, it is true that Jimmy John was underfilling the lettuce bags with sample mean of 14.39 pounds and sample standard deviation of 0.539.

Given sample mean =14.39 pound, sample standard deviation=0.539 and stated weight=15 pounds.

We know that mean is the number which comes after dividing sum of numbers divided by numbers. Standard deviation shows how much dispersed data is. Firstly we observe through mean and because it is less than 15, it means Jimmy John's had underfilled in atleast one bag otherwise if he had not underfilled the mean may come greater than or equal to 15 pounds.

Now come along standard deviation, we can observe that standard deviation is also low means the points are not in such a way that one point lies at 15 and other one is 25. It also shows underfilling of lettuce bags.

Hence it is true that Jimmy John had underfilled the lettuce bags.

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