A Gasoline Tank for a Certain Model Car Is Designed

question 28

Essay

A gasoline tank for a certain model car is designed to hold 12 gallons of gas. Suppose
that the actual capacity of gas tanks in cars of this type is well approximated by a
normal distribution with mean 12.0 gallons and standard deviation 0.2 gallons. What
is the approximate probability that a randomly selected car of this model will have a
gas tank that holds at most 11.7 gallons?

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Definitions:

Special Significance

A term indicating that something holds particular importance or value in a given context.

Sacred Meaning

The significance attributed to a thing, practice, or phenomenon considered holy, divine, or spiritually significant within a cultural or religious context.

False Consciousness

A term primarily associated with Marxist theory, referring to the way in which material, ideological, and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat and other classes about the realities of their subjugation.

Proletariats

The working-class people who do not own the means of production and must sell their labor to survive, a term often used in Marxist theory.