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The tensile strength of stainless steel produced by a plant has been stable for a long...

The tensile strength of stainless steel produced by a plant has been stable for a long time with a mean of 72 kg/mm2 and a standard deviation of 2.15. A machine was recently adjusted and a sample of 50 items were taken to determine if the mean tensile strength has changed. The mean of this sample is 74.28. Assume that the standard deviation did not change because of the adjustment to the machine. Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean of tensile strength after the machine was adjusted. Does this data suggest that the tensile strength was changed after the adjustment?

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We need to construct the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ. The following information is provided:

Sample Mean 74.28
Population Standard Deviation 2.15
Sample Size 50

The critical value for α=0.05 is z_c = 1.96 . The corresponding confidence interval is computed as shown below:

CI = (73.684, 74.876)  

Since the interval does not contain 72 and even the lower limit is more than 72. hence the tensile strength has improved

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