Boxes are labled as containing of cereal.
The machine filling the boxes produces weights that are normally distrubuted with standard deviation .
If the target weight is , then mean
.
Probability density function : .
Find the probability that the machine produces a box with less than of cereal.
.
Substitute and
in the above function.
Using calculator, the value of is
.
.
Therefore, machine produces of the total number of boxes with less than
of cereal.
(b)
\A law stares that of the of a manufacturer’s cereal boxes can contain less than the stated weight of
.
Therefore, probability that the machine produces a box with less than of cereal is
.
Formula of error function : .
Solve the equation by graphing the equation in two parts.0
\Graph :
\Graph the function .
Draw a line .
Observe the graph :
\The graph the function touches the line
at
.
Hence the value of is
.
(a) Machine produces of the total number of boxes with less than
of cereal.
(b) The value of is
.