Operations Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
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ISBN: 9780078024108
Author: William J Stevenson
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Chapter 4.S, Problem 17P
A major television manufacturer has determined that its 40-inch LED televisions have a mean service life that can be modeled by a normal distribution with a mean of six years and a standard deviation of one-half year.
a. What probability can you assign to service lives of at least (1) five years? (2) six years? (3) seven and one-half years?
b. If the manufacturer offers service contracts of four years on these televisions what percentage can be expected to fail from near out during the service period?
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Operations Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)
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