Reginald Brown an inspector from the department of weights and measures, weighs 15 eighteen-ounce cereal boxes of corn flakes. he finds their mean weight to be 17.78 ounces with a standard deviation of .4 ounces. are the cereal boxes lighter than they should be? let Alpha = .01

Answer 1

Z = (score-mean)/SEm

SEm = SD/√n

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability related to the Z score.

Answer 2

I still am not sure how to proceed with this with the information you gave me. Confused on this one

Answer 3

thank you