Homework Help: Math

Posted by Chad on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 7:09pm.

Suppose that the weight of tomato juice in mechanically filled cans follows a normal distribution with a mean 冚 of 464 grams and a standard deviation 冦 of 8 grams. What proportion of cans contain between 454 and 474 grams of tomato juice?

Math - Reiny, Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 7:34pm
the beauty of this applet is that you can enter the data values as is, without changing them to z-scores.

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

Since these kind of questions require the use of tables anyway, I don't see the harm of using the above program directly.

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