SOLUTION: A packing machine is set to fill a cardboard box with a mean of 16.1 ounces of cereal. Suppose the amounts per box form a normal distribution with a standard deviation equal to 0.4

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Question 1156898: A packing machine is set to fill a cardboard box with a mean of 16.1 ounces of cereal. Suppose the amounts per box form a normal distribution with a standard deviation equal to 0.4 ounces.
What percent of the boxes will have more than 16.3 ounces of cereal in them?

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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z=(x-mean)/sd
z<(16.3-16.1)/0.4
z<0.5
probability is 0.6915