A Random Sample of N = 8 E-Glass Fiber Test

question 24

Essay

A random sample of n = 8 E-glass fiber test specimens of a certain type yielded a sample mean interfacial shear yield stress of 30.5 and a sample standard deviation of 3.0. Assuming that interfacial shear yield stress is normally distributed, compute a 95% CI for true average stress.

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