In: Statistics and Probability
A power company manufactures a 100-watt light bulb that, according
to the specifications written on the box, has a half-life of 900
hours with a standard deviation of 50 hours. At most, what
percentage of the bulbs do not last at least 700 hours? Assume that
the distribution is symmetric around the mean.
The following information has been provided:
We need to compute
The corresponding z-value needed to be computed:
Therefore,