Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 7 - Hypothesis Testing with One Sample - Section 7.2 Hypothesis Testing for the Mean - Exercises - Page 374: 30

Answer

Fail to reject $H_{o}$ at α = 0.01

Work Step by Step

$z = \frac{x̄ - μ}{σ/\sqrt n}$ $z = \frac{23500-22500}{1200/\sqrt 45}$ = 5.59 P(z \leq 5.59) = 1 > α Hence fail to reject $H_{o}$ at α = 0.01
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