The average life of a bread-making machine is 7 years, with a standard deviation of 1 year.

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The average life of a bread-making machine is 7 years, with a standard deviation of 1 year. Assuming that the lives of these machines follow approximately a normal distribution, find
(a) The probability that the mean life of a random sample of 9 such machines falls between 6.4 and 7.2 years;
(b) The value of a; to the right of which 15% of the means computed from random samples of size 9 would fall.
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Probability & Statistics For Engineers & Scientists

ISBN: 9780130415295

7th Edition

Authors: Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying

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