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Estimate a defect probability from a frequency table

A company manufactures a wide variety of components for use in domestic appliances.

The company introduces a new type of light fitting for refrigerators. Each day a supervisor selects a sample of 100 of the light fittings for testing.

(i) How should the light fittings be selected? Give a reason for this method of selection.

The supervisor records the number of faulty light fittings found on each of 150 working days. Her results are shown in the table.

Number faultyNumber of days
04
119
238
341
422
516
66
74
8 or more0

(ii) Use the information in the table to estimate pp, the probability that a light fitting is faulty.

(iii) Assuming the number of faulty fittings found each day follows the binomial distribution B(100,p)B(100,p), find the expected number of days on which 3 faulty fittings are found in a period of 150 working days.

[2021/II/11(a)]

CJC · Discussion · Question 10

Compute the weighted mean faults per sample, then divide by the sample size 100.

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