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by karthikpandian19 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:32 pm
A vending m/c is designed to dispense 8 ounces of coffee per cup. After a test that recorded no of ounces of coffee in each of the 1000 cups dispensed by the vending m/c, the 12 listed amounts, in ounces, were selected for the data. if the 1000 recorded data have a mean of 8.1 ounces and standard deviation of 0.3, how many of the 12 listed amounts comes within 1.5 std dev of the mean?

7.51 8.09 7.73
8.22 7.83 8.25
7.86 8.30 7.96
8.36 8.01 8.53


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by Anurag@Gurome » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:36 pm
karthikpandian19 wrote:A vending m/c is designed to dispense 8 ounces of coffee per cup. After a test that recorded no of ounces of coffee in each of the 1000 cups dispensed by the vending m/c, the 12 listed amounts, in ounces, were selected for the data. if the 1000 recorded data have a mean of 8.1 ounces and standard deviation of 0.3, how many of the 12 listed amounts comes within 1.5 std dev of the mean?

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by karthikpandian19 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:47 pm
sorry abt tht...adding now...
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karthikpandian19 wrote:A vending m/c is designed to dispense 8 ounces of coffee per cup. After a test that recorded no of ounces of coffee in each of the 1000 cups dispensed by the vending m/c, the 12 listed amounts, in ounces, were selected for the data. if the 1000 recorded data have a mean of 8.1 ounces and standard deviation of 0.3, how many of the 12 listed amounts comes within 1.5 std dev of the mean?

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by Anurag@Gurome » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:53 pm
karthikpandian19 wrote:sorry abt tht...adding now...
S.D. = 0.3 implies 1.5 S.D. = 0.3 * 1.5 = 0.45
Mean = 8.1
"Within 1.5 standard deviation of the mean" means mean in the range 8.1 - 0.45 and 8.1 + 0.45, which means in the range 7.65 and 8.55
From the 12 listed amounts only 7.51 is not in the range, which means 11 amounts are within the range.

The correct answer is E.
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by karthikpandian19 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:59 pm
I didnt understand:

S.D. = 0.3 implies 1.5 S.D. = 0.3 * 1.5 = 0.45
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karthikpandian19 wrote:sorry abt tht...adding now...
S.D. = 0.3 implies 1.5 S.D. = 0.3 * 1.5 = 0.45
Mean = 8.1
"Within 1.5 standard deviation of the mean" means mean in the range 8.1 - 0.45 and 8.1 + 0.45, which means in the range 7.65 and 8.55
From the 12 listed amounts only 7.51 is not in the range, which means 11 amounts are within the range.

The correct answer is E.
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by Anurag@Gurome » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:06 pm
karthikpandian19 wrote:I didnt understand:

S.D. = 0.3 implies 1.5 S.D. = 0.3 * 1.5 = 0.45
It's given that standard deviation = 0.3, so 1.5 * standard deviation means 1.5 * 0.3 = 0.45
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by karthikpandian19 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:08 pm
Oh...Ok

I assumed / interpreted that the SD to be 1.5......

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karthikpandian19 wrote:I didnt understand:

S.D. = 0.3 implies 1.5 S.D. = 0.3 * 1.5 = 0.45
It's given that standard deviation = 0.3, so 1.5 * standard deviation means 1.5 * 0.3 = 0.45
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