The life span of a brand of tireis normally di stributed with a mean of 50,000 miles and a standard deviation of 2,500 miles. What warranty should the company use if they want 85% of the tires to outlast the warranty? Choose the closest answer. a 54,100 mi b 52,600 mi c 47,400 mi d 45,900 mi
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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The life span of a brand of tireis normally di stributed with a mean of 50,000 miles and a standard deviation of 2,500 miles. What warranty should the company use if they want 85% of the tires to outlast the warranty? Choose the closest answer.
| a |
54,100 mi |
|
| b |
52,600 mi |
|
| c |
47,400 mi |
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| d |
45,900 mi |
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