Question 17 - Week 3 Practice

Question 17

00:00Est. 1 min

Marks:+2.000.00

Passage

Suppose that a factory manufactures electronic gadgets every day. A quality control team tracks the number of defective gadgets found in daily production runs. Let

X

be the number of defective gadgets produced on any given day. The mean and variance of

X

are

50

and

81

, respectively. Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Question

Using Markov's inequality, find an upper bound on the probability that production will exceed

99

on a given day. Enter the answer correct to one decimal place.

Comprehension

Easy Difficulty

27 October 2024

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