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10% of IC (integrated-circuit) chips produced by a company are defective. Assume

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Question

10% of IC (integrated-circuit) chips produced by a company are defective. Assume that due to errors in the control procedure, there is a 2% probability that a good chip will be found defective, and a 3% probability that a defective chip will be accepted by the quality control. Find the probability that a randomly selected chip will be accepted by the quality control. Find the probability that a randomly selected chip will be rejected by the quality control. Find the probability that a chip is good if it is accepted by the quality control department. A customer who wants to buy a very large batch of chips, selects a random sample of 5 items. If no chips in the sample are defective, then he accepts the whole batch; otherwise, he rejects the batch. Find the probability that a batch is accepted.

Explanation / Answer

i>

10% are defective chips and 90% are the good chips

probability = 90/100 + 10/100*3/100

                = .9 + .003

                = .903 = 90.3 %

ii>

probability = 10/100*7/100

                 = .007 = .7 %

iii>

propability = 90/100 + (10/100*3/100) - (10/100*2/100)

                = .901 = 90.1 %