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Question 338982: Please help me solve this word problem:
The weights of the boxes of animal crackers coming off an assembly line differ slightly and form a normal distribution whose mean is 9.8 ounces and whose standard deviation is 0.6 ounces. Determine the number of boxes of animal crackers in a shipment of 5,000 boxes that are expected to weigh more than 11 ounces.

Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Find the z-score.
z=%28x-mu%29%2Fsigma=%2811-9.8%29%2F%280.6%29=2
P%282%29=0.97725
P%28z%3E2%29=1-0.97725=0.02275
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N=5000%280.02275%29
N=113.75
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114 boxes.