Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence 10th Edition by James Evans ,William Lindsay

Exercise 35

Note: Data sets for many problems in this chapter are available in the Excel workbook C06Data.xlsx on the Student Companion Site. Click on the appropriate worksheet tab as noted in the problem (e.g., Prob. 6-1) to access the data. In addition, the spreadsheet templates illustrated in the chapter are also available to aid in solving many of these problems.
Frackly Oil is sold in 900 milliliter (ml) cans. The mean volume of oil placed in a can is 880 ml with a standard deviation of 7.8 ml. Assuming a normal distribution of the data, what is the probability that the filling machine will cause an overflow in a can, that is, the probability that more than 900 ml will be placed in the can?