Edexcel S1 2003 November — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2003
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeDirect expected frequency calculation

3. Cooking sauces are sold in jars containing a stated weight of 500 g of sauce The jars are filled by a machine. The actual weight of sauce in each jar is normally distributed with mean 505 g and standard deviation 10 g .
    1. Find the probability of a jar containing less than the stated weight.
    2. In a box of 30 jars, find the expected number of jars containing less than the stated weight. The mean weight of sauce is changed so that \(1 \%\) of the jars contain less than the stated weight. The standard deviation stays the same.
  1. Find the new mean weight of sauce.