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,

1.96

standard deviations of the

1.96

2000.0

/ n

500

3919.9

/ n

500

n
So,

7.840

61.46

Therefore, we choose a sample size of 62