Question

A beverage distributor has a facility that bottles beer. Beer bottles are supposed to be filled to 12 oz but there are slight variations. As part of quality control, they randomly sample bottles of beer and measure how many ounces they contain. In the most recent sample, the found an average fill of 12.01 oz with a standard deviation of 0.89.
If one of the bottles of sampled beer was filled to 10.98 oz, what is its associated zscore?
Is this bottle an outlier?

Answer 1

The associated z score for filling to 10.98 oz. is -1.16.

Z score

The z score is used to determine by how many standard deviations the raw score is above or below the mean. It is given by:

z = (x - μ) / σ

where x is the raw score, μ is the mean and σ is the standard deviation.

Given that μ = 12.01, σ = 0.89, hence:

For x = 10.98:

z = (10.98 - 12.01)/0.89 = -1.16

The associated z score for filling to 10.98 oz. is -1.16.

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