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10.0 ppm 10.4 ppm 10.2 ppm 10.8 ppm 10.1 ppm 10.5 ppm 10.1 ppm Using the new instrument on the first day the technicians got a value of 9.0 ppm. Are the technicians right to exclude the measurement of the first day as an outlier at the 90% confidence level?

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Answer:

The datapoint 9.0 ppm is outlier at the 90% confidence level.

Step-by-step explanation:

The old data has following values

mean=10.5 mm

standard deviation 0.2 mm

Now the mean of new values is calculated as following


mean=(10+10.4+10.2+10.8+10.1+10.5+10.1)/(7)\\mean=10.3 ppm

So the value as 9.0 ppm can be considered easily as outlier in this regard.

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