document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1013297>Question 1013297</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> 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?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "a). 16<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b). 24<BR>\n" );
document.write( "c). 50 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "d). 10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "sd=3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "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.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Therefore, if 8 bags are 0.1584 of the probability, 8/0.1584=a little more than 48, and 50 is the closest answer.<BR>\n" );
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