A company claims that the mean monthly residential electricity consumption in a certain region is more than 870 kiloWatt-hours (kWh). You want to test this claim. You find that mean monthly consumption of 890 kWh. Assume the population standard deviation is 120 kWh. At a = 0.01, can you support the claim? Complete parts (a) through (e). random sample of 70 residential customers has a (Round to two decimal places as needed.) (d) Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. O A. Fail to reject H, because the standardized test statistic is in the rejection region. O B. Reject H, because the standardized test statistic is in the rejection region. O C. Reject H, because the standardized test statistic is not in the rejection region. O D. Fail to reject H, because the standardized test statistic is not in the rejection region (e) Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
![A company claims that the mean monthly residential electricity consumption in a certain region is more than 870 kiloWatt-hours (kWh). You want to test this claim. You find that a random sample of 70 residential customers has a
mean monthly consumption of 890 kWh. Assume the population standard deviation is 120 kWh. At a = 0.01, can you support the claim? Complete parts (a) through (e).
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
(d) Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.
O A. Fail to reject H, because the standardized test statistic is in the rejection region.
O B. Reject H, because the standardized test statistic is in the rejection region.
O C. Reject H, because the standardized test statistic is not in the rejection region.
O D. Fail to reject H, because the standardized test statistic is not in the rejection region.
(e) Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.
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