The life-time in hours of a certain electricalequipment has the normal distribution withmean - 80 and standard deviation 16.(i) What is the probability that the equipmentlasts at least 100 hours?(ii) If the equipment has already lasted 88hours, what is the conditional probability thatit will last at least another 12 hours ?

We hsve to find given probability using z table.

Answered: The life-time in hours of a certain…

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