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Title: You work for a consumer watchdog publication and are testing the advertising claims of a tire manufa
Post by: Catracho on Jan 8, 2019
You work for a consumer watchdog publication and are testing the advertising claims of a tire manufacturer. The manufacturer claims that the life spans of the tires are normally​ distributed, with a mean of​ 40,000 miles and a standard deviation of 4000 miles. You test 16 tires and get the following life spans. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (c) below.


Title: Re: You work for a consumer watchdog publication and are testing the advertising claims of a tire ...
Post by: bio_man on Jan 8, 2019
What I did was add up all the observations and divide by 16 to get:

36459.4

I'd do it again just to double check that I inserted the numbers into my calculator correctly!