1st Edition

ISBN: 9781938168208

Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

Publisher: OpenStax College

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Chapter 7, Problem 49P

Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: The length of time a particular smartphone’s battery lasts follows an exponential disuibution with a mean of ten months. A sample of 64 of these smartphone’s is taken.

49. What is the distribution for the mean length of time 64 batteries last?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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