Batches that consist of 50 coil springs from a production

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Batches that consist of 50 coil springs from a production process are checked for conformance to customer requirements. The mean number of nonconforming coil springs in a batch is five. Assume that the number of nonconforming springs in a batch, denoted as X, is a binomial random variable.

(a) What are n and p?

(b) What is \(P(X \leq 2)\)?

(c) What is \(P(X \geq 49)\)?

Equation transcription:

Text transcription:

P(X \leq 2)

P(X \geq 49)

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QUESTION:

Batches that consist of 50 coil springs from a production process are checked for conformance to customer requirements. The mean number of nonconforming coil springs in a batch is five. Assume that the number of nonconforming springs in a batch, denoted as X, is a binomial random variable.

(a) What are n and p?

(b) What is \(P(X \leq 2)\)?

(c) What is \(P(X \geq 49)\)?

Equation transcription:

Text transcription:

P(X \leq 2)

P(X \geq 49)

ANSWER:

Solution:

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It is given that there are 50 coil springs are there in a batch and is checked for conformance to customer requirements.

The mean number of coil springs that are nonconforming to customer requirements is 5.

Also, it is given that X denotes the number of coil springs nonconforming the customer requirements.

X is assumed to be the Binomial variate.

Using this we need to find the required values.


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