Another question from the Fall 2012 student survey administe

Another question from the Fall 2012 student survey administered to introductory statistics students asked \"How many children are in your family?\" According to the world factbook, the average number of children for a family in the United States is 2.01.

RESEARCH QUESTION? IS THERE EVIDENCE THAT THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN A FAMILY IS DIFFERENT FROM 2.01?

1.Is this an example of dependent(paired) or independent samples?

2. What is the hypothese?

Solution

1) indepent samples

because we only have 1 sample or population that we are going to testing

2)

Ho : miu = 2.01

H1 miu is different from 2.01