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Author: MARK BERENSON, David Levine
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Chapter 8, Problem 10PS
The operations manager at a light emitting diode (LED) light bulb factory needs to estimate the mean life of a large shipment of LEDs. The manufacturer ‘s specifications are that the standard deviation is 1,500 hours. A random sample of 64 LEDs indicated a sample mean life of 49,875 hours.
a. Construct a 95% confidence
b. Do you think that the manufacturer has the right to state that the LED light bulbs in this shipment.
c. Must you assume that the population LED light bulb life is
d. Suppose that the standard deviation changes to 500 hours. What are your answer in (a) and (b)?
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