Help with statistics problem over faulty pixels

David Hartley · science forum addict Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 86

Hi,

A company, A, sells TFT monitors. Lets say it buys 1000 monitors of a
particular type, of which 20 may have minor pixel faults.

Customers may buy at one price, say 200GBP, where they will be
guaranteed to get a pixel perfect monitor. They may buy at a lower
price, say 150GBP, where they will get one with pixel faults, if one
has already been identified when choosing a pixel perfect one for a
200GBP customer. Otherwise they will get one chosen at random from the
remaining stock.

Company B sells the same stock at 150GBP. So, presumably, they have a 49
in 50 chance of getting a perfect monitor.

Is there any way in which statistics could be used to assist a customer
in choosing whether to buy from A or B?

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Sue

Michael Zedeler · science forum beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

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