The present version of a certain tire gives an average of 20,000 km of tread life
with a standard deviation of 2000 km. A change to the manufacturing process
has been implemented with the hope that the average tread life will increase. Using the standard deviation from the old tires, determine the number of tires that need to be manufactured and tested in order to estimate the new tread life to within 500 km with 95% confidence. Standard deviation :
2000
Confidence interval %:
95%
Within :
500
Standard deviation x of the set of sample mean = / n=2000.0 / n
95% of the sample means should be within 1.96 population mean. So, Confidence interval = Sample Mean Therefore,