Coal is carried from a mine in West Virginia to a power plant in New York in hopper cars on a long train. The automatic hopper c
ar loader is set to put 69 tons of coal into each car. The actual weights of coal loaded into each car are normally distributed, with mean μ = 69 tons and standard deviation σ = 0.9 ton. What is the probability that one car chosen at random will have less than 68.5 tons of coal?
The use of sine and cosine could give you the angle measuments of the triangle, along with the use of tangent. Not only could it give you the angle measurements but the lengths of the sides.
