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A design engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the ser

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Question

A design engineer wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling the service life of a halogen headlamp his company produces. He knows from numerous previous samples that this service life is normally distributed with a mean of 500 hours and a standard deviation of 20 hours. On three recent production batches, he tested service life on random samples of four headlamps, with these results:


What is the sample mean service life for sample 2?

Multiple Choice

525 hours

515 hours

500 hours

460 hours

495 hours

Sample Service Life (hours) 1 495 500 505 500 2 525 515 505 515 3 470 480 460 470

Explanation / Answer

According to the given data , Putting the data in eqaution Provides

Mean service life sample for sample 2 = 515 hrs

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