A carpet manufacturer is inspecting for flaws in the finished product. If there are too many blemishes, the carpet will have to be destroyed. He finds the number of flaws in each square yard and is interested in the average number of flaws per 10 square yards of material. The sample mean, ?¯x¯ , for the 10 square yards will have what type of distribution? binomial Neither of the answer options is correct. Normal
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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A carpet manufacturer is inspecting for flaws in the finished product. If there are too many blemishes, the carpet will have to be destroyed. He finds the number of flaws in each square yard and is interested in the average number of flaws per 10 square yards of material. The sample mean, ?¯x¯ , for the 10 square yards will have what type of distribution?
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