Airlines have recently toughened their standards for the weight of checked baggage, limiting the weight of a
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Airlines have recently toughened their standards for the weight of checked baggage, limiting the weight of a bag to 50 pounds on domestic U.S. flights. Heavier bags will be carried, but at an additional fee. Suppose that one major airline has stated in an internal memo to employees that the mean weight for bags checked last year on the airline was 34.3 pounds with a standard deviation of 5.7 pounds. Further, it stated that the distribution of weights was approximately normally distributed. This memo was leaked to a consumers’ group in Atlanta. This group had selected and weighed a random sample of 14 bags to be checked on a flight departing from Atlanta. The following data (pounds) were recorded:
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Business Statistics A Decision Making Approach
ISBN: 9780133021844
9th Edition
Authors: David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry