Click Here to begin, or go to assignments and click on midterm 3 Jack is a golfer, and his actual mean drive distance last year was 260 yards. He has been practicing a new technique all year. He now wants to test to see if he has made an improvement. The distances are given below. Perform a hypothesis test at the 10% significance level to see if his mean drive distance is now greater than last year's average of 260. 6 of 8 270 280 249 260 264 250 258 259 280 270 262 272 290 255 261 259 Assume that the true population of distances is normally distributed with standard deviation 9.8. a) Calculate the sample mean. (To save you some time, the sum is 4239) b) Set up the null and alternative hypotheses c) State the significance level, a, in probability form.

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Jack is a golfer, and his actual mean drive distance last year was 260 yards. He
has been practicing a new technique all year. He now wants to test to see if he has
made an improvement. The distances are given below. Perform a hypothesis test at
the 10% significance level to see if his mean drive distance is now greater than last
6 of 8
year's average of 260.
270
280
249
260
264
250
258
259
280
270
262
272
290
255
261
259
Assume that the true population of distances is normally distributed with standard
deviation 9.8.
a) Calculate the sample mean. (To save you some time, the sum is 4239)
b) Set up the null and alternative hypotheses
c) State the significance level, a, in probability form.
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Step 1

Given information:

Significance level α=0.10

Population mean, that is last year's average drive distance μ=260

Population standard deviation σ=9.8

Sample size n=16

The given distances are as follows:

270 280 249 260
264 250 258 259
280 270 262 272
290 255 261 259
Step 2

a)

Sum of distances given ΣX=4239

The sample mean X¯ is calculated as follows:

X¯=ΣXn=423916=264.9375

Therefore, the sample mean is 264.9375.

 

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