Answered: A recent study of the lifetimes of cell…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

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A recent study of the lifetimes of cell phones found the average is 24.3 months. The standard deviation is
2.6 months. If a company provides its 36 employees with a cell phone, find the probability that the mean lifetime of these phones
will be less than 23.2 months. Assume cell phone life is a normally distributed variable, the sample is taken from a large
population and the correction factor can be ignored. Round the final answer to at least four decimal places and intermediate
Z -value calculations to two decimal places.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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