A simple random sample of 85 basketball players is taken from different teams and their mean weight is found to be 230 pounds and the standard deviation of the population is 18 pounds .At the significance level of 0.01 test the claim that the average weight for all basket ball players is 225 pounds.use the traditional method of hypothesis testing

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A simple random sample of 85 basketball players is taken from different teams and their mean weight is found to be 230 pounds and the standard deviation of the population is 18 pounds .At the significance level of 0.01 test the claim that the average weight for all basket ball players is 225 pounds.use the traditional method of hypothesis testing

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Given data is appropriate for z-test for single mean because the sample size is large . so, we can use z-test.

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