MSV 18: The Coffee Problem
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MSV 18: The Coffee Problem
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Sam’s cafe is doing well.
His coffee machines are dispensing X ml of coffee
into a standard cup, where X ~ N(a, b2).
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Now Sam gets some worrying
news.
The owner’s rule is that 98% of standard cupsshould contain more than c ml of coffee, and Sam’s machines obey this rule, just!
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The owner revises their rule so that 99% of standard cups have to contain
more than c ml of coffee.
Sam does some calculationsto find out how he has to adjust his machines.
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‘If I increase the mean a by 1%, that will do the trick exactly...’
‘But looking at it a different way, if I reduce the
standard deviationb by 0.1,
that will do what’s needed exactly as well!’
Can you find a, b and c?(Give your answers to 3sf.)
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Answers
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From 1 and 3, 2.054b = 2.326(b - 0.1) so b = 0.855ml.
Subtracting 1 from 2, 0.01a = 0.2326, so a = 23.3ml.
We now have c = 21.5ml.
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