The advertised weight on a can of soup is 10 ounces. The actual weight in the cans follows a uniform distribution and varies between 9.3 and 10.3 ounces
a. Give the mathematical expression for the probability density function.
b. What is the probability that a can of soup will have between 9.4 and 10.3 ounces?
c. What is the mean weight of a can of soup?
d. What is the standard deviation of the weight?
a. f(x) = 1.000 for 9.3 ? x ? 10.3; zero elsewhere
b. 0.90
c. 9.8
d. 0.289
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