A vending machine dispenses coffee into an eight -ounce cup. The amount of coffee dispensed? Yahoo Answer

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A vending machine dispenses coffee into an eight -ounce cup. The amount of coffee dispensed?
The amount of coffee dispensed into a cup is normally distributed with a standard deviation of .05 ounce. You allow the cup to overfill 5% of the time. What amount should you set as the mean amount of coffee to be dispensed _______ ounces

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Answer by Husker41
7.9 oz, because assuming a normal distribution, 95% of the fills will be within 2 standard deviations.

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