Problem 2: Did the Covid-19 quarantine increase the screen time? On average Canadians spend 3.5 hours on their smartphones per day. However, during the Covid-19 lockdown period, a Toronto research base conducted a survey on an SRS of 86 Canadians and found that the average time spent looking at screens is 4.2 hours with a standard deviation of 2.13 hours. a) Do we have some evidence to suggest that Canadians spend more time on screen due to the quarantine? Explain. b) Perform a hypothesis test at a significance level, alpha = 0.01.

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Problem 2: Did the Covid-19 quarantine increase the screen time? On average Canadians
spend 3.5 hours on their smartphones per day. However, during the Covid-19 lockdown period,
a Toronto research base conducted a survey on an SRS of 86 Canadians and found that the
average time spent looking at screens is 4.2 hours with a standard deviation of 2.13 hours.
a) Do we have some evidence to suggest that Canadians spend more time on screen due to
the quarantine? Explain.
b) Perform a hypothesis test at a significance level, alpha = 0.01.
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Transcribed Image Text:Problem 2: Did the Covid-19 quarantine increase the screen time? On average Canadians spend 3.5 hours on their smartphones per day. However, during the Covid-19 lockdown period, a Toronto research base conducted a survey on an SRS of 86 Canadians and found that the average time spent looking at screens is 4.2 hours with a standard deviation of 2.13 hours. a) Do we have some evidence to suggest that Canadians spend more time on screen due to the quarantine? Explain. b) Perform a hypothesis test at a significance level, alpha = 0.01. %3D
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Given that on average Canadians spend 3.5 hours on their smartphones per day.

Now a simple random sample obtained a sample mean and standard deviation of;

x¯=4.2s=2.13

(a) Now from the above information we can see that the population mean is 3.5 hours whereas the sample mean is 4.2 hours. Clearly;

x¯=4.2>3.5=μ

Hence there is evidence to suggest that Canadians spend more time on screen due to quarantine.

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