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by Nidhs » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:53 pm
Brett discovers that 150 bags of his favorite cookie contain a total of 3750 cookies. He then determines that the cookies in a bag are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 5. When Brett goes to the store to buy a bag of his favorite cookies, how many of the 1200 bags in the store contain more than 30 cookies?


24

25

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192

600

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by smushkas » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:39 am
Well, first of all, find the mean of 150 bags. 3750 / 150 = 25
Then we know it is a Normal Distribution that has:
1 SD = 68% of the total
2 SD = 95% of the total
3 SD = 99.7% of the total
Our data should be more than 30 cookies, that is more than 1 SD above. Thus, 1 - .68 = .32 = 32%
This 32% contains what is below the mean and what is above the mean, therefore we divide it by 2 to get what is above the mean, ==> .32 / 2 = .16 = 16%
.16 * 1200 = 192 ==> The answer must be [D]

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by Nidhs » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:08 pm
Can someone please explain to me how 1 SD is 68% of the total and so on

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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:05 pm
You shouldn't need to know that much detail about standard deviation for the GMAT.

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by resilient » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:22 pm
with S.D. all you might want to look at is how they are dispersed. Litteraly knowing th ewebsters dictionary definition of the SD is all you might want to know.
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by Nidhs » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:13 pm
I am relieved to know. I dont remember now where i got this question from....probably princeton or something.

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