Question

A popcorn company builds a machine to fill 1 kg bags of popcorn. They test the first hundred bags filled and find that the bags have an average weight of 1,040 grams with a standard deviation of 25 grams. 1.) Fill out the normal distribution curve for this situation. 2.) What percentage of people would receive a bag that had a weight greater than 1115 grams?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that a popcorn company builds a machine to fill 1 kg bags of popcorn. They test the first hundred bags filled and find that the bags have an average weight of 1,040 grams with a standard deviation of 25 grams.

i.e. Sample mean = 1040 and

Sample std dev s = 25 gm

Sample size n = 100

Hence by central limit theorem we have the sample mean follows a normal distribution with mean =1040 and std dev = s = 25 gm

$\bar X = N(1040,25)$

Normal curve would be with mean 1040 and std deviatin 25

b) P(X>1115)

= 1-0.9987

=0.0013

i.e. 0.13% would receive a bag that had a weight greater than 1115 grams