The number of flaws per square yard in a type of carpet material varies with mean 1.6

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The number of flaws per square yard in a type of carpet material varies with mean 1.6 flaws per square yard and standard deviation 1.2 flaws per square yard.

a. Without doing any calculations, explain which event is more likely: 

  • Randomly selecting a 1 square yard of material and finding 2 or more 
  • Flaws randomly selecting 50 square yards of material and finding an average of 2 or more flaws

b. Explain why you cannot use a Normal distribution to calculate the probability of the first event in part (a).

c. Calculate the probability of the second event in part (a).

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781319113339

6th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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