Sugar Is Packaged in 16 Ounce Bags

question 21

Short Answer

Sugar is packaged in 16 ounce bags. To test the weight of the bags, a few were checked. The mean weight was 15.95 ounces; the standard deviation, 0.5 ounces. How many bags must the processor sample to be 99 percent confident that the sample mean does not differ from the population mean by more than 0.2 ounces?

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