The standard inner diameter of a bearing on a roller wheel is 8 mm. Let $X$ denote the random variable giving in mm the diameter of a bearing and we assume that $X$ follows a normal distribution with mean 8 and standard deviation 0.1.
A bearing is said to be compliant if its diameter is between $7.8 \mathrm{~mm}$ and $8.2 \mathrm{~mm}$.
- Calculate the probability that a bearing is compliant.
- Supplier $B$ sells its bearings in batches of 16 and claims that only $5\%$ of its bearings are non-compliant. The club president, who bought 30 batches from him, finds that 38 bearings are non-compliant. Does this check call into question supplier B's claim? An asymptotic fluctuation interval at the $95\%$ threshold may be used.
- The bearing manufacturer of this supplier decides to improve the production of its bearings. The adjustment of the machine that manufactures them is modified so that $96\%$ of the bearings are compliant. We assume that after adjustment the random variable $X$ follows a normal distribution with mean 8 and standard deviation $\sigma$. a. What is the distribution followed by $\frac{X - 8}{\sigma}$? b. Determine $\sigma$ so that the manufactured bearing is compliant with a probability equal to 0.96.