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Many people consider their smart phone to be essential! Communication, news, Internet, entertainment, photos, and just keeping current are all conveniently possible with a smart phone. However, the battery better be charged or the phone is useless. Battery life of course depends on the frequency, duration, and type of use. One study involving heavy use of the phones showed the mean of the battery life to be 10.25 hours with a standard deviation of 3.1 hours. Then the battery needs to be recharged. Assume the battery life between charges is normally distributed.

(a) Find the probability that with heavy use, the battery life exceeds 11 hours. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)


(b) You are planning your recharging schedule so that the probability your phone will die is no more than 5%. After how many hours should you plan to recharge your phone? (Round your answer to the nearest tenth of an hour.)
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Explanation / Answer

Mean is 10.25 and s is 3.1

z is given as (x-mean)/s

a) P(x>11)=P(z>(11-10.25)/3.1)=P(z>0.24) or 1-P(z<0.24) , from normal distribution table we get 1-0.5948=0.4052

b) we want the probability to be less than 5% means that the life of phone is greater than 95%

for 0.95, the z value is 1.65 from normal distribution table

answer is mean+s*z=10.25+1.65*3.1=15.365 or 15.4

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