A manufacturer of compact fluorescent light bulbs advertises that the distribution of the lifespans of these light bulbs is nearly normal with a mean of 9,000 hours and a standard deviation of 1,000 hours. (a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen light bulb lasts more than 10,000 hours? equation editor Equation Editor % (b) What is the sample standard deviation of the mean lifespan of 64 randomly chosen lightbulbs? equation editor Equation Editor (round to the nearest integer) (c) What is the probability that the mean lifespan of 64 randomly chosen light bulbs falls between 8875 hours and 9125 hours? equation editor Equation Editor %
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
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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