Some quality control experiments require destructive sampling (i.e., the test to determine whether the item is defective
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Some quality control experiments require destructive sampling (i.e., the test to determine whether the item is defective destroys the item) in order to measure a particular characteristic of the product. The cost of destructive sampling often dictates small samples. Suppose a manufacturer of printers for personal computers wishes to estimate the mean number of characters printed before the printhead fails.The printer manufacturer tests n = 15 printheads and records the number of characters printed until failure for each. These 15 measurements (in millions of characters) are listed in Table 5 , followed by a MINITAB summary statistics printout in Figure 10 .
a. Form a 99% confidence interval for the mean number of characters printed before the printhead fails. Interpret the result.
b. What assumption is required for the interval you found in part a to be valid? Is that assumption reasonably satisfied?
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