SOLUTIONS TO CHAPTER 11 EXERCISES: MIXING AND SEGREGATION Page 1

SOLUTION TO EXERCISE 11.1:

From Text-Equation 11.1, the mean value of the sample compositions is:
% 84 . 21 y
31
1
y
31
1 i
i
= =

Since the rtue mixture composition si not known, an estimate of the standard deviation is
found from Text_Equation 11.3:
( ) 518 . 2 85 . 21 y
1 31
1
S
31
1 i
2
i
=
(

=

=

Since there are less than 50 samples, the variance distribution curve is more likely to be a
2
_
distribution. Therefore, from Text-Equations 11.11 and 11.12:
Lower limit:
( ) ( )
2
2
2
2
2
L
1 31 518 . 2 1 N S
o o
_

=
_

= o
Upper limit:
( ) ( )
2
1
2
2
1
2
2
U
1 31 518 . 2 1 N S
o o
_

=
_

= o
At the 95% confidence level, 025 . 0 = o so referring to the
2
_ distribution tables with 30
degrees of freedom, 98 . 46
2
= _
o
and 79 . 16
2
1
= _
o
.

Hence: 05 . 4
2
L
= o and 33 . 11
2
U
= o and so we can say that the actual standard deviation lies
between 2.012 and 3.366 with 95% confidence.









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