Buckley Farms ships its chips in boxes that contain 6 bags. The empty boxes have a mean weight of 10 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.05 ounces. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the total weight of a box containing 6 bags of chips. c) Buckley Farms decides to increase the mean weight of each bag of chips so that only 5% of the bags have weights that are less than 16 ounces. Assuming that the standard deviation remains 0.12 ounces what mean weight should Buckley Farms use?
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106.9 oz