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The life of light bulbs is distributed normally. The standard deviation of the lifetime is 15 hours and the mean lifetime of a bulb is 530 hours. Find the probability of a bulb lasting for at least 561 hours.

 Nov 28, 2016
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561 is approximatly 2 standard deviations from mean:  530 +  (2 x 15)....if you look at a bell curve this is the upper 2% of lightbulbs

so probability is   2/100   or  1/50  

 Nov 28, 2016

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