Concept explainers
Suppose that the length of life in hours (say, X) of a light bulb manufactured by company A is
One bulb is randomly selected from each company and is burned until “death.”
(a) Find the probability that the length of life of the bulb from company A exceeds the length of life of the bulb from company B by at least 15 hours.
(b) Find the probability that at least one of the bulbs “lives” for at least 920 hours.
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