Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
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Chapter 13, Problem 13.92ACI
CPU of a computer chip. The central processing unit (CPU) of a microcomputer is a computer chip containing millions of transistors. Connecting the transistors are slender circuit paths only .5 to .85 micrometer wide. A manufacturer of CPU chips knows that if the circuit paths are not .5−.85 micrometer wide, a variety of problems will arise in the chips’ performance. The manufacturer sampled four CPU chips six times a day (every 90 minutes from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.) for 5 consecutive days and measured the circuit path widths. These data were used to construct an
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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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