Assume that you have a box of resistors that have a Gaussian distribution of resistances with...

Assume that you have a box of resistors that have a Gaussian distribution of resistances with mean µ = 100 Ω and standard deviation σ = 20 Ω
(i.e., 20% resistors). Suppose that you wish to form a subgroup of resistors
with µ = 100 Ω and standard deviation 5 Ω (i.e., 5% resistors) by selecting all resistors with resistance between the two limits r1 = µ−a and r2 = µ+a.
(Apparently, you are too cheap to just order the resistors with the appropri-
ate resistance tolerance from Mouser.)

(a) Find the value of a.

(b) What fraction of resistors should satisfy the condition?

(c) Find the standard deviation of the remaining sample.

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Expert Solution

Here 5% of the resistors mean we need to compute the confidence interval for the given parameters using normal distribution.

We assume that the n = 1000

Following are the calculations for the same,

Value of a = 0.31

b) Almost, 95% of the population will fall into this group

c) Std dev of the remaining sample = sigma/(0.05*n)

orchestra answered 2 years ago

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