document.write( "Question 616900: the amount of coffee that is dispensed by an automatic machine is normally distributed with a mean of 7 ounces and a standard deviation of 1 ounce. if the machine is used 250 times, about how many of these times would an 8 ounce cup overflow?\r
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document.write( "Hi,
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document.write( "amount of coffee that is dispensed by an automatic machine is normally distributed with a 
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document.write( "mean of 7 ounces and a standard deviation of 1 ounce
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document.write( "Percentage of times an 8 ounce cup overflow? 
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document.write( "1 - P(z<1) = 1- NORMSDIST(1)= 1 - .84134 = .158655 OR 16% of the time
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document.write( " .16* 250  = 40 , Number of times an 8 ounce cup would overflow
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