a) A manufacturer claims that the life of his batteries is normally distributed with mean = 60 hours and standard deviation 30 minutes. find the value of t if 2.5% of the batteries last more than t hours.
b) The interest for a loan of 1 year is 2.5% per month. the loan is to be repaid in one-off in full at the end of the loan period. calculate the actual interest rate per annum.