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The number of chocolate chips in an 18 ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximate normally distributed with a mean 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1000 and 1400 chocolate chips, inclusive' What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1000 chocolate chips' What proportion of bags contains mote than 1175 chocolate chips? What is the percentile rank of a baa that contains 1000 chocolate chips?

Explanation / Answer

Answer to the question)

mean M = 1252

Standard deviation s = 129

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Part a)

P(1000 < x < 1400) = P( x< 1400) - P( x< 1000)

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P(x < 1400) = P(z < (1400-1252)/129)

P(x < 1400) = P(z < 1.15) = 0.8749

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P(x < 1000) = P( z < (1000-1252)/129)

P(x < 1000) = P(z < -1.95) = 0.0256

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P(1000 < x < 1400) = 0.8749 -0.0256

P(1000 < x < 1400) =0.8493

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Part b)

P(x < 1000) = P(z < (1000-1252)/129)

P(x < 1000) = P(z < -1.95) = 0.0256

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Part c)

P( x> 1175) = 1 - P(x < 1175)

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P(x < 1175) = P(z < (1175-1252)/129)

P(x < 1175) = P(z < -0.60) = 0.2743

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P(x > 1175) = 1 - 0.2743

P( x > 1175) = 0.7257

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Part d)

We know that P(X < 1000) = 0.0256

thus the percentile rank is ; 0.0256*100

Percentile rank = 2.56%

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