A machine that fills bottles with an un-named refreshing beverage is set up so that it dispenses 16.3 ounces of beverage on average with a standard deviation of 0.4 ounces. Assume that the amounts of beverage in the bottles are distributed normally. What is the probability that the bottle contains a) more than 17 ounces of beverage? b) between 16.1 and 16.4 ounces of beverage?

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A machine that fills bottles with an un-named refreshing beverage is set up so that it dispenses 16.3 ounces of beverage on average with a standard deviation of 0.4 ounces. Assume that the amounts of beverage in the bottles are distributed normally. What is the probability that the bottle contains

a) more than 17 ounces of beverage?

b) between 16.1 and 16.4 ounces of beverage?

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