A microwave manufacturing company has just switched to a new
A microwave manufacturing company has just switched to a new automated production system. Unfortunately, the new machinery has been frequently failing and requiring repairs and service. The company has been able to provide its customers with a completion time of 6 days or less. To analyze whether the completion time has increased, the production manager took a sample of 25 jobs and found that the sample mean completion time was 6.5 days with a sample standard deviation of 1.5 days. At a significance level of .05, test whether the completion time has increased. (form the hypotheses, show the critical and calculated values of the test statistic and perform the test) (Ch10)
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Observed Mean (
