SOLUTION: Betty's Bite-Sized Candies are packaged in bags. The number of candies per bag is usually distributed, with a mean of 50 candies and a standard deviation of 3. At a quality checkpo

Question 1013297: Betty's Bite-Sized Candies are packaged in bags. The number of candies per bag is usually distributed, with a mean of 50 candies and a standard deviation of 3. At a quality checkpoint, a sample of bags is checked and 8 bags contained fewer than 47 candies. How many samples were probably taken as samples?
a). 16
b). 24
c). 50
d). 10
Thank you
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
mean=50
sd=3
Fewer than 47 would be expected 0.1584 of the time, for that is the probability of being one or more ad's below the mean.
Therefore, if 8 bags are 0.1584 of the probability, 8/0.1584=a little more than 48, and 50 is the closest answer.
C.
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