After many years of product car batteries testing, a company knows that the average life of a battery is normally distributed, with a mean of 47 months and a standard deviation of 10 months. If they do not want to make refunds for more than 17% of their batteries under the full refund guarantee policy, for how long should the company guarantee the batteries (to the nearest month)
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!
After many years of product car batteries testing, a company knows that the average life of a battery is
If they do not want to make refunds for more than 17% of their batteries under the full refund guarantee policy, for how long should the company guarantee the batteries (to the nearest month)
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