Normal approximation to total weight above 26 kg
Question
A cheesemaker produces blocks whose weights in grams are i.i.d. exponential with rate ; let be their total weight. Using the central limit theorem, , where is the standard normal CDF. What is ?
Short answer
. has mean and standard deviation , so is standard deviations above the mean. Then .
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- The Central Limit Theorem
- The Normal Distribution
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
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