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Monitors manufactured by TSI Electronics have life spans that have a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 1200 hours and a mean life span of 18,000 hours. If a monitor is selected at random, find the probability that the life span of the monitor will be more than 16,800 hours. Round your answer to four decimal places.

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Answer: 0.8413

Explanation:

Explanation:

Let x be a random variable that represents the life span of monitors manufactured by TSI Electronics .

Also Monitors manufactured by TSI Electronics have life spans that have a normal distribution with


\mu=18000 hours


\sigma=1200 hours


z=(x-\mu)/(\sigma)

Then for x= 16,800 hours,


z=(16800-18000)/(1200)=-1

The probability that the life span of the monitor will be more than 16,800 hours. :-


P(x>16800)=P(z>-1)=1-P(z\leq-1)\\\\=1-(1-P(z\leq1)\\\\=P(\leq1)= 0.8413447\approx 0.8413

Hence, he probability that the life span of the monitor will be more than 16,800 hours = 0.8413

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