Prob-5 The lighting department of a city has installed 2000 electric lamps with an average life of 10,000 h and a standard deviation of 500 h. After what period of lighting hours would we expect 65.54% of the lamps to fail? Assume life of lamps are normally distributed. Sol: 50% 65,54%

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The lighting department of a city has installed 2000 electric lamps with an average life of 10,000 h and a standard deviation of 500 h.
After what period of lighting hours would we expect 65.54% of the lamps to fail? Assume life of lamps are normally distributed.
Sol:
50% 65,54%
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