A Cereal-Packaging Company Fills Boxes on Average with 39 Oz

question 35

Essay

A cereal-packaging company fills boxes on average with 39 oz of cereal. Due to machine error, the actual volume is normally distributed with a standard deviation of
0.2 oz. Let be the probability of a box having less than 38.5 oz. Express as an integral of an appropriate density function and compute its value numerically.

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Record Deletion Button

A feature in database and some applications which allows users to remove specific records or entries with a single click.

Field

A specific piece of data; a component of a database record that represents one piece of information within the record.

Sequential Integers

A series of integers (whole numbers) arranged in an ordered sequence where each number differs from the previous one by a constant step, typically one.