Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 36CP
Returning shipment Refer to the previous exercise, in which the manufacturer will return the entire shipment if more than 5% defective chips are found in the sample.
- a. Find the
probability that the shipment will be returned if the manufacturer decides to test only 380 randomly selected chips (instead of 500). - b. Suppose that despite the claim by the supplier, the shipment actually contains 6% defective chips. Find the probability that the shipment will be returned if the manufacturer randomly samples 380 chips from the shipment.
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