The Acme Candy Company Claims That $60 \%$ Of the Jawbreakers It Produces Weigh More Than

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The Acme Candy Company claims that $60 \%$ of the jawbreakers it produces weigh more than $0.4$ ounces. Suppose that 800 jawbreakers are selected at random from the production lines. Would it be significant for this sample of 800 to contain 494 jawbreakers that weigh more than $0.4$ ounces? Consider as significant any result that differs from the mean by more than 2 standard deviations. That is, significant values are either less than $\mu$ $2 \sigma$ or greater than $\mu + 2 \sigma$ .

• A) Yes
• B) No

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