SOLUTION: The numbers of cookies in a shipment of bags are normally distributed, with a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 3. What percent of bags of cookies will contain between 42 and
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Question 307586: The numbers of cookies in a shipment of bags are normally distributed, with a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 3. What percent of bags of cookies will contain between 42 and 54 cookies?
* 47.5%
* 95%
* 2.5%
* 16%
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
With mean of 48 and standard deviation of 3, the values of 42 and 54 represent a distance of 2 standard deviations from the mean. This represents 95% of the shipment.
Dr. Robert J. Rapalje, Retired
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