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A certain type of cable has a mean breaking point of 159 pounds with a standard deviation of 6 pounds. What weight should be specified so that 95% of the cables can be expected not to break supporting that weight?
Answer:
Given that:
A certain type of cable has a mean breaking point of 159 pounds with a standard deviation of 6 pounds.
Mean () = 159
Standard deviation ()=6
The z-score is 3.33 for top 95% that is for A=0.500
For a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation the size is
Here x is the non standard distribution to a z-score
To find the cutoff for an F,plug in , z-score in the above formula and solve for x
So
Therefore,the cutoff of breaking point of a certain type of cable in the top 95% is 179 pounds