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Stop the carl A car company has found that the lifetime of its disc brake pads varies from car to car according to a Normal distrilustion with mean μ=55000miles and standard deviationσ=4500miles. The company installs a new brand of brake pads on an SRS of 8cars.

(a) If the new brand has the same lifetime distribution as the previous bye of brake pad, what is the sampling distribution of the mean lifetime x?

(b) The average life of the pads an these 8cars turns out to be x=51800miles. Find the probability that the sample mean lifetime is 51800miles or less if the lifetime distribution is unchanged, What conclusion would you draw?

Short Answer

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(a)The sampling distribution is normally with mean =55000and standard deviation =1590.99

(b)The probability is0.0222

Step by step solution

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Part (a) Step-1 Given Information 

Given in the question that

Population mean(μ)=55000

Population standard deviationσ=4500

Sample sizen=8

We have to find that the sampling distribution of the mean lifetime x¯.

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Part (b) Step-2 Explanation 

The sample distribution of x¯is written as :

x~NμX¯,σX¯

x~Nμ,σn

x¯~N55000,45008

x¯~N(55000,1590.99)

Thus, the sampling distribution is normally distributed with mean =55000and standard deviation=1590.99

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Part (a) Step-1 Given Information 

Given in the question that he average life of the pads an these 8cars turns out to be x=51800mile we have to find the probability that the sample mean lifetime is 51800miles or less and also if the lifetime distribution is unchanged, What conclusion would you draw.

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Part (b) Step-2 Explanation 

The probability that the sample mean is 51800or less is calculated as follows:

Px<191=Px¯-μσn<51800-μσn

localid="1649200029249" =PZ,51800-5500045008

=P(Z<-2.01)

=PZ<-2.01

=0.0222

Thus, the required probability is 0.5346

The computed probability is below0.05.thus, there is low chances for the occurance of the event.

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