Question

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A fabric paint manufacturing company fills the paint in containers using a machine. The amount of paint in a container follows a normal distribution with a mean of 99 ml and a standard deviation of 5 ml. What is the probability that the quantity of paint filled is less than 100 ml? A) 0.28 B) 0.42 C) 0.58 D) 0.92

Answer 1

The correct answer is C) 0.58

Explanation:

All this is from USATESTPREP:

The function normCdf(x0, x1, , ) gives the probability that a value drawn from a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation lies in the interval [x0, x1].As the normal distribution is symmetric, the probability that a value is less than the mean is exactly 0.5P(x ≤ 100) = P(x < 99) + P(99 ≤ x ≤ 100)= 0.5 + normCdf(99,100,99,5) = 0.5793Rounded to the nearest hundredth, the probability that a container is filed with less than 100 ml is 0.58.