Pyramid Lake is on the Paiute Indian Reservation in Nevada. The lake is famous for cutthroat trout. Suppose a friend tells you that the average length of trout caught in Pyramid Lake is ? = 19 inches. However, the Creel Survey reported that of a random sample of 49 fish caught, the mean length was ?̅= 18.5 inches, with estimated standard deviation ? = 3.2 inches. Do these data indicate that the average length of a trout caught in Pyramid Lake is less than ? = 19 inches? Use ? = 0.05. a. Do we use a Normal or a Student’s t- distribution? Explain. How many degrees of freedom do we use? b. What are the hypotheses?
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. Pyramid Lake is on the Paiute Indian Reservation in Nevada. The lake is famous for cutthroat trout. Suppose a friend tells you that the average length of trout caught in Pyramid Lake is ? = 19 inches. However, the Creel Survey reported that of a random sample of 49 fish caught, the
mean length was ?̅= 18.5 inches, with estimated standard deviation ? = 3.2 inches. Do these data indicate that the average length of a trout caught in Pyramid Lake is less than ? = 19 inches? Use ? = 0.05.
a. Do we use a Normal or a Student’s t- distribution? Explain. How many degrees of freedom do we use?
b. What are the hypotheses?
Given information
Hypothesized mean µ = 19 inches
Sample size (n) = 49
Mean x̅ = 18.5 inches
Standard deviation (s) = 3.2 inches
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