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The lifetime of a certain type of automobile tire (in thousands of miles) is normally distributed with mean =41 and standard deviation =6

(a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen tire has a lifetime greater than 50 thousand miles?

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Answer:

6.68% probability that a randomly chosen tire has a lifetime greater than 50 thousand miles

Explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean
\mu and standard deviation
\sigma, the zscore of a measure X is given by:


Z = (X - \mu)/(\sigma)

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this problem, we have that:


\mu = 41, \sigma = 6

(a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen tire has a lifetime greater than 50 thousand miles?

This is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 50. So


Z = (X - \mu)/(\sigma)


Z = (50 - 41)/(6)


Z = 1.5


Z = 1.5 has a pvalue of 0.9332

1 - 0.9332 = 0.0668

6.68% probability that a randomly chosen tire has a lifetime greater than 50 thousand miles

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