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?
What will be an ideal response?
| 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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