Cook-Easy blender has a mean time before failure of 41 months with a standard deviation of 4 months, and the failure times are normally distributed. What should be the warranty period, in months, so that the manufacturer will not have more than 8% of the blenders returned

The warranty period should be of 35 months.

Step-by-step explanation:

Normal Probability Distribution:

Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean and standard deviation , the z-score of a measure X is given by:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the p-value, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

Cook-Easy blender has a mean time before failure of 41 months with a standard deviation of 4 months

This means that

What should be the warranty period, in months, so that the manufacturer will not have more than 8% of the blenders returned?

The warranty period should be the 8th percentile, which is X when Z has a p-value of 0.08, so X when Z = -1.405.

Rounding to the nearest integer, 35.

The warranty period should be of 35 months.

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

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