Consumer Products Are Required by Law to Contain at Least

question 11

Essay

Consumer products are required by law to contain at least as much as the amount printed on the package. For example a bag of potato chips that is labeled as 10 ounces should contain at least 10 ounces. Assume that the standard deviation of the packaging equipment yields a bag weight standard deviation of 0.2 ounces. Explain what average bag weight must be used to achieve at least 97.5 percent of the bags having 10 or more ounces in the bag. Assume the bag weight distribution is bell-shaped.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the strength of a behavior is modified by its consequences, such as reward or punishment.

Extinction

Within the field of psychology, a conditioned response gradually fades and ultimately vanishes.

Unconditioned Stimulus

Within the framework of classical conditioning, a stimulus inherently and spontaneously elicits a reaction without the necessity of prior learning.

Negative Punishment

A form of behavioral control that involves the removal of a desirable stimulus following a behavior to decrease the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.