Stewed Tomatoes. A company produces cans of stewed tomatoes with an advertised weight of 14 oz. The standard deviation of the weights is known to be 0.4 oz. A quality-control engineer selects a can of stewed tomatoes at random and finds its net weight to be 17.28 oz.
a. Estimate the relative standing of that can of stewed tomatoes, assuming the true mean weight is 14 oz. Use the z-score and Chebyshev’s rule.
b. Does the quality-control engineer have reason to suspect that the true mean weight of all cans of stewed tomatoes being produced is not 14 oz? Explain your answer.
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