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Resistor Production
This engineering resource, produced by Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) for the Royal Academy of Engineering, asks the question: how can production outcome data from a manufacturing process be analysed to optimise the process? Students consider the outputs of resistors to see the outcomes form a normal distribution. Students have to decide whether a machine producing the resistors needs calibrating. The mathematics covered in this activity is:
- Display data using a bar chart
- Extract numerical information from a dataset
- Calculate probability
- Estimate probability as a relative frequency
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