“Chips Ahoy! 1,000 Chips Challenge.” Students in an introductory statistics course at the U.S. Air Force Academy participated in Nabisco’s “Chips Ahoy! 1,000 Chips Challenge” by confirming that there were at least 1000 chips in every 18-ounce bag of cookies that they examined. As part of their assignment, they concluded that the number of chips per bag is approximately normally distributed.

Could the number of chips per bag be exactly normally distributed?

Explain your answer. [SOURCE: B. Warner and J. Rutledge, “Checking the Chips Ahoy! Guarantee,” Chance, Vol. 12(1), pp. 10–14]