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A soda manufacturer claims that on average their bottles contain 16oz of soda with an SD of 0.1oz. A regulatory agency decides to test this claim by randomly sampling 100 bottles. They actually observe a sample average of 15.5 oz. What are the chances that they would get a sample average of 15.5oz or less in a sample of this size

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Answer: The chances are of the probability = 0.0001

Explanation:

The normal distribution can be described completely by the two parameters µ and σ.

As always, the mean is the center of the distribution and the standard deviation is the measure of the variation around the mean.

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