Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8.1, Problem 1E
In an experiment to determine the factors affecting tensile strength in steel plates, the tensile strength (in kg/mm2), the manganese content (in parts per thousand), and the thickness (in mm) were measured for a sample of 20 plates. The following MINITAB output presents the results of fitting the model Tensile strength = β0 + β1 Manganese + β2 Thickness.
- a. Predict the strength for a specimen that is 10 mm thick and contains 8.2 ppt manganese.
- b. If two specimens have the same thickness, and one contains 10 ppt more manganese, by how much would you predict their strengths to differ?
- c. If two specimens have the same proportion of manganese, and one is 5 mm thicker than the other, by how much would you predict their strengths to differ?
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