worried about customer complaints and potential lawsuits, the manufacterers decided that no more than o.5% of bags of Crunchy corn chips should be underweight. there are 2 possible adjustments that can be made; change the mean setting on the filling machines while leaving the standard deviation constant, or leave the mean setting at 10.4 ounces and try to adjust the standard deviation. Describe the necessary adjestments for each of these plans. Which do you think is the most feasible? Explain.

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The manufacturers have also discovered that if they put too many chips in a bag the bag will busr. In order to balance their concerns over customer satisfaction and possible breakage, management wants to adjust the filling machines so that only 0.5% bags are under weight and only 2% are mroe than 10.5 ounces. Find the values of Mean and standard deviation that accomplist these goals.

Answer 1

First, you have not provided a ounces cutoff value for "underweight".
Second, take a shot -- what do you think.
Hint -- think normal distribution and look a the number of standard deviations away from the mean that coincides with .5%

Answer 2

A pizza parlor has a choice of toppings for its pizzas. From these toppings, how many different -topping pizzas can be ordered? Assume that the order in which the toppings are listed does not matter.