Question: Deep mixing is a ground improvement method developed for soft soils like clay, silt, and peat. Swedish civil engineers investigated the properties of soil improved

Deep mixing is a ground improvement method developed for soft soils like clay, silt, and peat. Swedish civil engineers investigated the properties of soil improved by deep mixing with lime-cement columns in the journal Giorisk(Vol.7,2013). The mixed soil was tested by advancing a cylindrical rod with a cone tip down into the soil. During penetration, the cone penetrometer measures the cone tip resistance(megapascals, MPa). The researchers established that tip resistance for the deep mixed soil followed a normal distribution with muequals2.2 MPa and sigmaequals0.9 MPa. Complete parts a through c below. Find a value of tip resistance, T, such that 15% of all soil samples have tip resistance values that exceed T.

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