SOLUTION: The lifetime in hours of a brand of light bulb is normally distributed with a mean of 221 hours and a standard deviation of 7 hours.
a) What is the probability that a light bulb
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Question 1180992: The lifetime in hours of a brand of light bulb is normally distributed with a mean of 221 hours and a standard deviation of 7 hours.
a) What is the probability that a light bulb lasts between 215 and 234 hours?
b) What is the lifetime of a light bulb that is at the 85th percentile?
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mean is 221 hours.
standard deviation is 7 hours.
a) What is the probability that a light bulb lasts between 215 and 234 hours?
the probability is .7727, using the calculator that can be found at https://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html
here's a display of the use of that calculator to solve this problem.
b) What is the lifetime of a light bulb that is at the 85th percentile?
the lifetime of a bulb at the 85th percentile is 228.255, using the same calculator as above, only using the value from an area option rather than the area from a value option as was done solving the previous question.
here's a display of the use of that calculator to solve this problem.
the 85th percentile means the lifetime of the bulb is greater than 85% of all the bulbs.
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