Nikita is a government official looking to find evidence on whether the mean taxable income for an individual taxpayer in the region dropped since the previous year. She surveyed 32 individual taxpayers in the region and found the taxable income of each individual as shown in the data set provided. Instead of using the standard deviation from the survey, Nikita decided to use the census data for the region to assume that the population standard deviation of income is $26,744. The mean taxable income in the region was $62,712 for the previous year. (a)  H0:μ=$62,712;Ha:μ<$62,712, which is a left-tailed test.   (b)  Taxable income of each individual is given below.  Use Excel to test whether this year's mean taxable income for an individual taxpayer in the region is less than the mean taxable income from the previous year, and then draw a conclusion in the context of the problem, where α=0.10. Calculate the test statistic, z, rounding to two decimal places, and the p-value, rounding to three decimal places. Taxable income ($) 12193 64586 60363 59639 103402 24127 53641 38963 78596 49328 33983 64023 49771 89073 59433 21930 53789 30236 41639 87935 73396 69640 69371 104896 112354 96396 83921 72539 52186 91483 32069 17296

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Nikita is a government official looking to find evidence on whether the mean taxable income for an individual taxpayer in the region dropped since the previous year. She surveyed 32 individual taxpayers in the region and found the taxable income of each individual as shown in the data set provided. Instead of using the standard deviation from the survey, Nikita decided to use the census data for the region to assume that the population standard deviation of income is $26,744. The mean taxable income in the region was $62,712 for the previous year.

(a)  H0:μ=$62,712;Ha:μ<$62,712, which is a left-tailed test.

 

(b)  Taxable income of each individual is given below. 

Use Excel to test whether this year's mean taxable income for an individual taxpayer in the region is less than the mean taxable income from the previous year, and then draw a conclusion in the context of the problem, where α=0.10. Calculate the test statistic, z, rounding to two decimal places, and the p-value, rounding to three decimal places. Taxable income ($)

12193

64586

60363

59639

103402

24127

53641

38963

78596

49328

33983

64023

49771

89073

59433

21930

53789

30236

41639

87935

73396

69640

69371

104896

112354

96396

83921

72539

52186

91483

32069

17296

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