In Exercise 3.1 you calculated summary statistics for the sample of 50 student GPAs in the file Studentsl.xls. Return to those data (depicted in figure 1 below)  Can you conclude that more than 50% of all students at this school are female? Use α= 0.05. What is the p-value of this test? Can you conclude that the mean GPA of all students at this school is less than 3.000? Use α= 0.05. What is the p-value of this test? Figure 1)

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In Exercise 3.1 you calculated summary statistics for the sample of 50 student GPAs in the file Studentsl.xls. Return to those data (depicted in figure 1 below) 

  1. Can you conclude that more than 50% of all students at this school are female? Use α= 0.05. What is the p-value of this test?
  2. Can you conclude that the mean GPA of all students at this school is less than 3.000? Use α= 0.05. What is the p-value of this test?

Figure 1)

ID    Female    Major    GPA
1    1    4    2.537 
2    0    2    3.648 
3    1    3    2.981 
4    0    2    2.683 
5    1    2    3.234 
6    1    3    2.467 
7    1    1    3.384 
8    1    3    3.555 
9    0    2    3.263 
10    1    1    3.711 
11    1    5    1.970 
12    1    4    3.406 
13    0    1    2.523 
14    0    3    1.750 
15    1    6    3.191 
16    1    2    2.795 
17    0    1    2.606 
18    0    5    2.397 
19    1    6    3.791 
20    0    4    3.490 
21    0    3    2.421 
22    0    5    3.937 
23    0    5    2.890 
24    1    6    2.246 
25    1    2    3.371 
26    1    5    3.114 
27    0    1    3.084 
28    0    5    2.703 
29    1    3    3.045 
30    0    1    1.948 
31    1    1    2.717 
32    1    6    1.996 
33    1    3    2.870 
34    0    5    2.986 
35    0    1    3.393 
36    1    2    2.740 
37    1    6    2.499 
38    1    4    3.695 
39    1    4    2.664 
40    1    5    2.306 
41    1    3    3.022 
42    1    6    2.776 
43    1    5    2.175 
44    0    2    3.828 
45    0    6    3.410 
46    0    4    2.330 
47    0    5    3.978 
48    1    3    3.503 
49    1    4    3.253 
50    1    2    2.215 

 

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