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)      A thread manufacturer test a sample of eight lengths of a certain type of thread...

)      A thread manufacturer test a sample of eight lengths of a certain type of thread made of blended materials and obtains a mean strength of 8.2 lb with standard deviation 0.06 lb. Assuming tensile strengths are normally distributed, construct a 90% confidence interval for the mean tensile strength of this thread.

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n = sample size = 8

s = sample standard deviation = 0.06

Formula for confidence interval

E means margin of error.

C = level of confidence = 0.900 ( We converted 90 % in to decimal )

n - 1 = degrees of freedom (d .f ) = 8-1 = 7

We look for row headed df = 7 and column headed c = 0.900

We use formula of confidence interval

90% confidence interval for the mean tensile strength of this thread is

Final answer :-

90% confidence interval for the mean tensile strength of this thread is


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