The weights of a bag of cement admixture produced by a company is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 8.0 kilograms and a variance of 0.64 kilogram. If measurements are recorded to the nearest tenth of a kilogram, find the proportion of these bags with weights (a) of at most 8.4 kilograms; (b) between 7.1 and 9.2 kilograms inclusive.

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The weights of a bag of cement admixture produced by a company is approximately normally
distributed with a mean of 8.0 kilograms and a variance of 0.64 kilogram. If measurements are
recorded to the nearest tenth of a kilogram, find the proportion of these bags with weights
(a) of at most 8.4 kilograms;
(b) between 7.1 and 9.2 kilograms inclusive.
Transcribed Image Text:The weights of a bag of cement admixture produced by a company is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 8.0 kilograms and a variance of 0.64 kilogram. If measurements are recorded to the nearest tenth of a kilogram, find the proportion of these bags with weights (a) of at most 8.4 kilograms; (b) between 7.1 and 9.2 kilograms inclusive.
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