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HW 3 ME-451 162-Solution

This document contains the solutions to homework problems from a mechanical engineering course on design and analysis of engineering experiments. It includes 6 problems related to statistical hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and comparing variances. The problems cover topics such as comparing means and variances from different samples and processes, and testing claims about population parameters. Normality and equal variance assumptions are discussed where relevant. Statistical tests like t-tests and F-tests are performed to analyze the data.

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HW 3 ME-451 162-Solution

This document contains the solutions to homework problems from a mechanical engineering course on design and analysis of engineering experiments. It includes 6 problems related to statistical hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and comparing variances. The problems cover topics such as comparing means and variances from different samples and processes, and testing claims about population parameters. Normality and equal variance assumptions are discussed where relevant. Statistical tests like t-tests and F-tests are performed to analyze the data.

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Mechanical Engineering Department

ME 451: Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments


Semester (162)

Homework # 3 SOLUTION

Assigned date: Thursday, April 6th, 2017


Due date: Sunday, April 16th, 2017

Name: ________________________ ID#: _____________________

Problems Marks Grades


Obtained

1 10

2 10

3 10

4 10

5 10

6 10

Total 60
Problem # 1
A procurement specialist has purchased 25 resistors from vendor 1 and 35 resistors from vendor
2. Each resistor’s resistance is measured with the following results.

(a) What distributional assumption is needed to test the claim that the variance of resistance
of product from vendor 1 is not significantly different from the variance of resistance of
product from vendor 2?
(b) Perform an appropriate statistical hypothesis testing procedure to determine whether the
procurement specialist can claim that the variance of resistance of product from vendor 1
is significantly different from the variance of resistance of product from vendor 2.
Problem # 2
Two different analytical tests can be used to determine the impurity level in steel alloys. Eight
specimens are tested using both procedures, and the results are shown in the following
tabulation. Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that both tests give the same mean impurity
level, using α = 0.01?
Problem # 3
The results of an experiment to determine failure mechanisms for plasma-sprayed thermal barrier
coatings are obtained. The failure stress for one particular coating (NiCrAlZr) under two
different test conditions is as follows:

(a) What assumptions are needed to construct confidence intervals for the difference in mean
failure stress under the two different test conditions?
(b) Perform a hypothesis test to determine if the mean failure stress of the two different test
conditions is the same at the 0.05 significance level.
(c) Construct a 99.9% CI of this difference. Use this CI to again test the hypothesis that the
mean failure stress of the two different test conditions is the same. Explain why your results
are the same or different from those found in part (b).

a) Normality and equality of variances assumptions should appear to be reasonable. The data
should appear to fall along a straight line and the slopes should appear to be the same.

b)

c)
Problem # 4

The life in hours of a heating element used in a furnace is known to be approximately normally
distributed. A random sample of 15 heating elements is selected and found to have an average
life of 598.14 hours and a sample standard deviation of 16.93 hours.
a) At the α = 0.05 level of significance, test the hypotheses H0: µ=550 versus H1: >550. On
completing the hypothesistest, do you believe that the true mean life of a heating element
is greater than 550 hours? Clearly state your answer.
b) Find the P-value of the test statistic.
c) Construct a 95% lower confidence bound on the mean and describe how this interval can
be used to test the alternative hypothesis of part (a).
d) Construct a two-sided 95% CI for the underlying variance
Problem # 5

A manufacturing company uses a screen printing process to deposit ink on thin plastic substrates.
The thickness of the deposit is a critical quality characteristic. A new automated ink depositing
system has been added to reduce the variability in the thickness of the deposit. Weight
measurements in grams, used to characterize the thickness, are taken using the old manual and
new automated processes. The recorded sample standard deviations are sold =0.072 grams based
on 21 observations and snew = 0.058 grams based on 16 observations.
(a) Determine if the new system results in a variance that is significantly less than the old at α =
0.1. State any necessary assumptions of your analysis.
(b) Find the P-value of this test.
(c) Construct a 90% CI on the ratio of the variances.
(d) Use the CI found in part (c) to determine if the new system results in a variance that is
significantly less than the old. Explain why your answer is the same or different.
Problem # 6

A manufacturer of precision measuring instruments claims that the standard deviation in the use
of the instruments is at most 0.00002 mm. An analyst, who is unaware of the claim, uses the
instrument eight times and obtains a sample standard deviation of 0.00001 mm.
a) Confirm using a test procedure and an α level of 0.01 that there is insufficient evidence to
support the claim that the standard deviation of the instruments is at most 0.00002. State
any necessary assumptions about the underlying distribution of the data.
b) Explain why the sample standard deviation, s = 0.00001, is less than 0.00002, yet the
statistical test procedure results do not support the claim.

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