A company that produces an expensive stereo component is considering offering a warranty on the component. Suppose the population of lifetimes of the components is a normal distribution with a mean of 84 months and a standard deviation of 9 months. If the company wants no more than 2% of the components to wear out before they reach the warranty date, what number of months should be used for the warranty? (Enter your answer as a whole number.)

Warranty of 66 months.

Step-by-step explanation:

Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean and standard deviation , the zscore of a measure X is given by:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

In this problem, we have that:

If the company wants no more than 2% of the components to wear out before they reach the warranty date, what number of months should be used for the warranty?

Only the lowest 2% will be replaced, so the warranty is the value of X when Z has a pvalue of 0.02. So it is X when Z = -2.055.

Warranty of 66 months.

let's solve your equation step-by-step.

4x+2=2x+12

step 1: subtract 2x from both sides.

4x+2−2x=2x+12−2x

2x+2=12

step 2: subtract 2 from both sides.

2x+2−2=12−2

2x=10

step 3: divide both sides by 2.

2x

2

=

10

2

x=5

step-by-step explanation: