The Owners of the Burger Emporium Are Looking for New

question 34

Essay

The owners of the Burger Emporium are looking for new supplier of onions for their famous hamburgers. It is important that the onion slice be roughly the same diameter as the hamburger patty. After careful analysis, they determine that they can only use onions with diameters between 9 and 10 cm. Company A provides onions with diameters that are approximately normally distributed with mean 10.3 cm and standard deviation of 1.2 cm. Company B provides onions with diameters that are approximately normally distributed with mean 10.6 cm and standard deviation of 0.9 cm. Which company provides the higher proportion of usable onions? Justify your choice with an appropriate statistical argument.

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Definitions:

Freud's Theory

A psychoanalytic framework proposed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious processes and childhood experiences in shaping personality.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of psychology developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that is the source of instinctive impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

Ego

In Freudian theory, the part of the personality that mediates among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality.