Potato chips the weight of potato chips in a mediumsize bag


Question: Potato chips. The weight of potato chips in a mediumsize bag is stated to be 10 ounces. The amount that the packaging machine puts in these bags is believed to have a Normal model with mean 10.2 ounces and standard deviation 0.12 ounces.

a) What fraction of all bags sold are underweight?

b) Some of the chips are sold in "bargain packs" of 3 bags. What's the probability that none of the 3 is underweight?

c) What's the probability that the mean weight of the 3 bags is below the stated amount?

d) What's the probability that the mean weight of a 24-bag case of potato chips is below 10 ounces?

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