According to the pharmaceutical companies, in the production of a specific medication for cholesterol the mass of the active ingredient is approximately normal distributed with a mean of 100.05mg and a standard deviation of 0.012 mg.a) For a randomly selected batch of this medication, what is the probability that there are pills with masses under 100.04mg?

Calculus For The Life Sciences
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Chapter13: Probability And Calculus
Section13.3: Special Probability Density Functions
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According to the pharmaceutical companies, in the production of a specific medication for 
cholesterol the mass of the active ingredient is approximately normal distributed with a mean of 
100.05mg and a standard deviation of 0.012 mg.
a) For a randomly selected batch of this medication, what is the probability that there are pills with 
masses under 100.04mg?

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