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The Normal Distribution

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Question 17

The mass of a bag of flour produced at a factory is normally distributed with a mean of 1500 g and a standard deviation of 20 g.

a.

Find the probability of a bag weighing more than 1545 g.

[2]
b.

The quality control manager suspects that the mean mass of the flour bags has changed.

Write down a null and alternative hypothesis for a two-tailed test.

[1]
c.

They take a random sample of 25 bags and find a mean mass of 1512 g.

Test at the 5% significance level whether there is evidence that the mean mass has changed.

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