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. A manufacturing process produces semiconductor chips with a known failure rate of 6.3%. Assume that chip failures are independent of one another. You will be producing 2,000 chips tomorrow.

Find the expected number of defective chips produced.
Find the standard deviation of the number of defective chips.
Find the probability (approximate) that you will produce less than 135 defects.

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Explanation:

Hello!

Your study variable is:

X: number of failure chips in 2000.

This is a discrete variable with the binomial distribution. To check this you have to prove if the variable follows the binomial criteria.

1. The number of observation of the trial is fixed (In this case n = 2000)

2. Each observation in the trial is independent, this means that none of the trials will affect the probability of the next trial (As stated in the text, each failure chips are independent of one another)

3. There are two possible outcomes "success" and "failure". The probability of success in the same from one trial to another (In this case our "success" will be a failure chip and the probability of getting one is p= 0.063

So X≈ Bi (n;ρ)

The expected value for a binomial variable is:

E(X)= n*p= 2000*0.063= 126 failure chips

This means that out of the 2000 chips you'd expect 126 to be failures.

The variance for the binomial variable is:

V(X)= n*p*q

Where q is the probability of "failure" of the experiment, in this example we are counting the defective chips as "success" then all working chips are the "failure" of the experiment. This probability is complementary to "p" and you can also find it as "1-p"

V(X)= n*p*q= 2000*0.063*0.937= 118.062

And the standard deviation is the square root of the variance

δ= √V(X)= 10.865 ≅ 10.87

The probability of producing less than 135 defects is:

P(X<135)= 0.78

I've used statistical software to calculate the probability.

I hope this helps!

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