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tester [92]
3 years ago
10

A supermarket has determined that daily demand for milk containers has an approximate bell shaped distribution, with a mean of 5

5 containers and a standard deviation of six containers. How often can we expect between 49 and 61 containers to be sold in a day?

Mathematics
1 answer:
lara [203]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

\\ P(49 or 68.26%.

Step-by-step explanation:

The daily demand for milk containers has a Normal (or Gaussian) distribution, and we can use values from the <em>cumulative distribution function</em> and z-scores to solve the question.

We know from the question that the <em>mean</em> of the distribution is:

\\ \mu = 55

And a <em>standard deviation</em> of:

\\ \sigma = 6

The z-scores permit calculates the probabilities for any case whose values have a <em>Normal </em>o <em>Gaussian</em> distribution. Then, for this, we need to calculate the z-scores for 49 containers and 61 containers to establish the corresponding probabilities, as well as the differences between these two values to determine the probability between them.

These z-scores are given by:

\\ z = \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}

Thus,

The z-scores for 49 and 61 containers are:

\\ z_{49} = \frac{49 - 55}{6} = \frac{-6}{6} = -1 [1]

\\ z_{61} = \frac{61 - 55}{6} = \frac{6}{6} = 1 [2]

Well, this is a special case when <em>in both cases</em> the values are <em>one standard deviation</em> from the mean, but in one case (\\ z_{49} = -1) the values are smaller than the mean and in the other case (\\ z_{61} = 1) the values are greater than the mean.

In other words, the cumulative probability for (\\ z_{61} = 1), obtained from any Table of the Normal Distribution available on the Web, is: 0.8413 (or 84.13%) and the cumulative probability for (\\ z_{49} = -1) is: 1 - 0.8413 = 0.1587 (or 15.87%), because of the symmetry of the Normal Distribution.

Then, the probability of expecting to sell between 49 and 61 containers in a day is the difference of both obtained probabilities:

\\ P(49 or 68.26%.

See the graph below.

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