Consider the following hypothesis test Please show your work
Consider the following hypothesis test. Please show your work so I can see how you got your answer.
Solution
Formulating the null and alternative hypotheses,
Ho: u >= 10
Ha: u < 10
As we can see, this is a 1 tailed test.
Thus, getting the critical z, as alpha = 0.05 ,
zcrit = -1.644853627
Thus, rejection rule is when z < -1.645. [ANSWER, PART A]
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Getting the test statistic, as
X = sample mean = 9.46
uo = hypothesized mean = 10
n = sample size = 50
s = standard deviation = 2
Thus, z = (X - uo) * sqrt(n) / s = -1.909188309 [PART B]
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Also, the p value is, using technology on the left tailed area of z = -1.9092,
p = 0.028118902 [PART C]
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Comparing z and zcrit (or, p and significance level), we REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.
There is significant evidence that u < 10. [PART D]
