Farmers know that driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses the soil and injures future crops. Here are data on the "penetrability" of the same type of soil at two levels of compression. Penetrability is a measure of how much resistance plant roots will meet when they try to grow through the soil. Compressed Soil 2.82 2.66 2.98 2.82 2.76 2.81 2.78 3.08 2.94 2.86 3.08 2.82 2.78 2.98 3.00 2.78 2.96 2.90 3.18 3.16 Intermediate Soil 3.18 3.38 3.1 3.40 3.38 3.14 3.18 3.26 2.96 3.02 3.54 3.36 3.18 3.12 3.86 2.92 3.46 3.44 3.62 4.26 Use the data, omitting the high outlier, to give a 99% confidence interval for the decrease in penetrability of compressed soil relative to intermediate soil. Compute degrees of freedom using the conservative method.

Step-by-step explanation:

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To see if driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses it causing harm to future crops, the penetrability of two types of soil were measured:

Sample 1: Compressed soil

X₁: penetrability of a plot with compressed soil.

n₁= 20 plots

X[bar]₁= 2.90

S₁= 0.14

Sample 2: Intermediate soil

X₂: penetrability of a plot with intermediate soil.

n₂= 20 (with outlier) n₂= 19 plots (without outlier)

X[bar]₂= 3.34 (with outlier) X[bar]₂= 2.29 (without outlier)

S₂= 0.32 (with outlier) S₂= 0.24 (without outlier)

Outlier: 4.26

Assuming all conditions are met and ignoring the outlier in the second sample, you have to construct a 99% CI for the difference between the average penetration in the compressed soil and the intermediate soil. To do so, you have to use a t-statistic for two independent samples:

Parámeter of interest: μ₁-μ₂

Interval:

[(X[bar]₁-X[bar]₂)±*Sa]

[(2.90-2.29)±2.715*0.20]

[0.436; 0.784]

I hope this helps!