Chocolate Bars Produced by a Certain Machine Are Labeled 8

question 67

Multiple Choice

Chocolate bars produced by a certain machine are labeled 8.0 ounces.The distribution of the actual weights of these chocolate bars is claimed to be Normal with a mean of 8.1 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.1 ounces.The quality control manager plans to take a simple random sample of size n from the production line.How big should n be so that the sampling distribution of has a standard deviation of 0.01 ounces?

• A)10
• B)100
• C)1000
• D)This can't be determined unless we know the population follows a Normal distribution.

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