Suppose the Mean Number of Candies in a Standard Vending

question 159

Essay

Suppose the mean number of candies in a standard vending machine bag is 47.6, with a standard
deviation of 1.3. Assume that the number of candies per package is normally distributed.
a. Fill in the blanks below the normal curve with the appropriate information. b. If you buy 1,000 packages of candies, about how many bags would you expect to have between
46 and 49 M&M's in it?
c. What percentage of the bags have less than 45 candies?

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Core personality traits that are dominant and define a person's overall behavior and attitude.

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Characteristics shared by most members of a population, often used in personality psychology to describe aspects of human behavior.

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An individual's awareness and understanding of their ego, which in psychoanalytic theory, refers to the conscious, rational part of the psyche.

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