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Please provide the following information for Problems 11-22. part (a):
(i) What is the level of significance? State the null and alternate hypotheses.
(ii)Check Requirements What sampling distribution will you use? What assumptions are you making? What is the value of the sample test statistic? Compute the corresponding z or t value as appropriate.
(iii)Find (or estimate) the P-value. Sketch the sampling distribution and show the area corresponding to the P-value.
(iv)Based on your answers in parts (i)—(iii), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Are the data statistically significant at level a?
(v)Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.
Note: For degrees of freedom d.f. not in the Student's t table, use the closest d.f. that is smaller. In some situations, this choice of d.f. may increase the P-value a small amount, and therefore produce a slightly more “conservative” answer. Answers may vary due to rounding.
Agriculture: Bell Peppers The pathogen Phytophthora capsici causes bell peppers to wilt and die. Because bell peppers are an important commercial crop, this organism has undergone a great deal of agricultural research. It is thought that too much water aids the spread of the pathogen. Two fields are under study. The first step in the research project is to compare the
Field A samples,
| 10.2 | 10.7 | 15.5 | 10.4 | 9.9 | 10.0 | 16.6 |
| 15.1 | 15.2 | 13.8 | 14.1 | 11.4 | 11.5 | 11.0 |
Field B samples,
| 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 13.9 | 12.2 |
| 13.4 | 11.3 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 12.7 | 12.4 | 11.3 | 12.5 |
Use a calculator with mean and standard deviation keys to verify that
(a) Assuming the distribution of soil water content in each field is mound-shaped and symmetrical, use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that field A has, on average, a higher soil water content than field B.
(b) Find a 90% confidence interval for
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