ANALYTIC GEOMETRY

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1. The life expectancy of a brand of light bulbs is normally distributed with a mean of
1500 hours and a standard deviation of 75hours.
a. What is the probability that a bulb will last between 1500 and 1650 hours?
Ans. 0.4772
b. What is the percentage of the light bulbs that will last 1485 and 1500hours?
Ans. 0.0793
c. What is the probability that a bulb will last between 1416 and 1677 hours?
Ans. 0.8595
d. What is the probability that a bulb will last between 1563 and 1648 hours?
Ans. 0.1762
What is the probability that a bulb will last less than 1410 hours? Ans. 0.1151

2. A fair coin is tossed 12 times. Determine the probability P that a number of heads
occurring is between 4 and 7 inclusive by using the normal approximation. Ans. 0.733

3. The number of customers who come to the YUMMY donut store follows a Poisson
process with a mean of 5 customers every 10 minutes.
a. Find the probability that there are no customers for at least 2 minutes by using the
corresponding exponential and Poisson distributions. Ans. 0.368
b. Find the mean and variance of X.
Ans. 𝜇 = 2 min 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝜎 9 = 4

Suggested Readings/ Videos:

Normal Distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQcusEQ1Xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCRIxkt8N8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqbajiHCVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8orlpJAew-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdB1d5-OE0

Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9nRcadQYsU

Exponential Distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kg1O0j1J9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkLYSi5XNE

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