Boxes are labled as containing
of cereal.
The machine filling the boxes produces weights that are normally distrubuted with standard deviation
.
If the target weight is
, then mean
.
Probability density function :
.
Find the probability that the machine produces a box with less than
of cereal.
.
Substitute
and
in the above function.

Using calculator, the value of
is
.


.
Therefore, machine produces
of the total number of boxes with less than
of cereal.
(b)
\A law stares that
of the of a manufacturer’s cereal boxes can contain less than the stated weight of
.
Therefore, probability that the machine produces a box with less than
of cereal is
.

Formula of error function :
.

Solve the equation by graphing the equation in two parts.0
\Graph :
\Graph the function
.
Draw a line
.

Observe the graph :
\The graph the function
touches the line
at
.
Hence the value of
is
.
(a) Machine produces
of the total number of boxes with less than
of cereal.
(b) The value of
is
.