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The amount of a brand of soda in 12-ounces can is approx. normal with a mean of 12.1 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.15 ounces.
(A) What is the probability that a randomly chosen can contains more than 12.3 ounces? Less than 11.9 ounces?
(B) What percentage of the soda can contains less than the advertised 12 ounces?

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A Complete, Neat and Step-by-step Solution is provided with regards to discrete probability distributions within the context of statistics.

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mu = 12.1, sigma = 0.15

z = (x - mu)/sigma

(A) z = (12.3 - 12.1)/0.15 = ...

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