SOLUTION: The number of flaws per sheet of plywood has a mean of 3 and a standard deviation of 0.9. If possible, find the probability that a randomly chosen sheet of plywood has 3 or more f

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Question 956166: The number of flaws per sheet of plywood has a mean of 3 and a standard deviation of 0.9.
If possible, find the probability that a randomly chosen sheet of plywood has 3 or more flaws. If impossible, tell why
Is this impossible because n must be greater than 30 or the distribution must be known
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a trick question.

Since the mean is 3, that means that half of the sheets of plywood in the world
have 3 or more flaws and the other half have 3 or fewer flaws. So the probability
is 50% or 0.5. The distribution and the standard deviation do not matter.  The
standard deviation was given just to throw you off.

Edwin
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