Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 46PS
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has set a bus fleet reliability goal of 8,000 bus miles. Bus reliability is measured specifically as the number of bus miles travelled before a mechanical breakdown that requires the bus to be removed from service or device from the schedule. Suppose a sample of 64 buses resulted in a sample
a. Is There evidence that the population mean bus miles is greater than 8,000 bus miles? (Use a 0.05 level of significance.)
b. Determine the p-value and interpret its meaning.
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