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Sampling Distributions · Superchallenge problem

Light bulb lifetimes are strongly skewed, with mean 10001000 hours and SD 10001000 hours. Bulbs are used one after another, each replaced when it fails. Using the central limit theorem with z=1.645z = 1.645, what is the smallest number of bulbs to stock so that the probability their total lifetime is at least 20,00020{,}000 hours is at least 0.950.95?