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ISBN: 9781111792374

Author: WEIERS

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 6.4, Problem 6.50E

A manufacturing plant’s main production

line breaks down an average of 2.4 times per day. Whenever the line goes down, it costs the company $500 in maintenance, repairs, and lost production. What is the probability that the production line will break down at least 3 times tomorros’? What is the approximate expected value for the amount of money that production line breakdowns will cost the company each day?

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Solution Summary: The author calculates the expected amount of money the city will have to pay for production line breakdowns using the cumulative Poisson tables in the appendix.

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