6-2CP

Gebhardt considers a new supplier for copper wire. The supplier claims that its’ spools of
0.20 mm diameter solid OFE copper wire average 50 inches between flaws. The
objective is to determine whether the new supply satisfies the supplier’s claim.

The length of wire between two consecutive flaws is exponentially distributed with
expected value,   50 . The probability that Gebhardt’s criteria will be fulfilled is
0.0488. The minimum mean length is 0.02 inches between consecutive flaws. The
minimum mean length is 0.01 inches between consecutive flaws that would result in a 1
in 100 chance that a randomly selected 3-foot segment of wire provided by the new
supplier will be flawless.