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If shear-strength measurements have a standard deviation of 10 psi, how_many test welds should be used...

If shear-strength measurements have a standard deviation of 10 psi, how_many test welds should be used in the sample if the sample mean is to be within 1 psi of the population mean with probability approximately 0.95?

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