Quick Start Company makes 12-volt car batteries. After many years of product testing, the company knows that the average life of a Quick Start battery is normally distributed, with a mean of 45.8 months and a standard deviation of 8.9 months. (a) If Quick Start guarantees a full refund on any battery that fails within the 36-month period after purchase, what percentage of its batteries will the company expect to replace? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) ______ % (b) If Quick Start does not want to make refunds for more than 5% of its batteries under the full-refund guarantee policy, for how long should the company guarantee the batteries (to the nearest month)? _______ months
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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Quick Start Company makes 12-volt car batteries. After many years of product testing, the company knows that the average life of a Quick Start battery is
(a) If Quick Start guarantees a full refund on any battery that fails within the 36-month period after purchase, what percentage of its batteries will the company expect to replace? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
______ %
(b) If Quick Start does not want to make refunds for more than 5% of its batteries under the full-refund guarantee policy, for how long should the company guarantee the batteries (to the nearest month)?
_______ months
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