Pulling wood apart How heavy a load (pounds) is needed to pull apart pieces of Douglas fir 4 inches long and 1.5 inches square? A random sample of 20 similar pieces of Douglas fir from a large batch was selected for a science class. The Fathom boxplot below shows the class’s data. Explain why it would not be wise to use a t critical value to construct a confidence interval for the population mean m.

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