A Certain Type of Automobile Battery Is Known to Have

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Essay

A certain type of automobile battery is known to have a lifespan that is normally distributed, with mean 1100 days and standard deviation 80 days. For how long should these batteries be guaranteed if the manufacturer wants to replace only 5% of the batteries sold because they "died" before the guarantee expired?

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Definitions:

Looping Mechanisms

Structures in programming that repeat a sequence of instructions until a certain condition is met.

Code Segment

A specific portion of code that is logically grouped together, performing a specific task or function within a program.

While Loop

A control flow statement in programming that repeatedly executes a block of statements as long as a specified condition remains true.

Printf Method

A method used in various programming languages for formatted output, where it allows the programmer to specify the formatting of the output by using placeholders within a string.