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4.5 Statistical distributions (A-level only)

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Question 64

The battery life, in hours, for a fully charged wireless keyboard is normally distributed with mean 50 hours and standard deviation 6 hours. Hannah has a fully charged wireless keyboard.

a.

Find the probability that the keyboard lasts longer than 45 hours.

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b.

Hannah uses her keyboard for 45 hours. Find the probability that Hannah's keyboard lasts for another 10 hours.

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c.

Hannah believes that the mean battery life of the wireless keyboards are longer than 50 hours. She took a random sample of 20 of these keyboards and found that their mean lifetime was 51.1 hours. Stating your hypotheses clearly and using a 5% level of significance, test Hannah's belief.

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