SOLUTION: The weight of corn chips dispensed into a 24-ounce bag by the dispensing machine has been identified as possessing a normal distribution with a mean of 24.5 ounces and a standard d

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Question 1054940: The weight of corn chips dispensed into a 24-ounce bag by the dispensing machine has been identified as possessing a normal distribution with a mean of 24.5 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.2 ounce. What proportion of the 24-ounce bags contain more than the advertised 24 ounces of chips?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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z(for 24)=(24-24.5)/0.2=-2.5
It is the 1-probability of z being <-2.5=0.9938