Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780321946393
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 72PS

The owner of a speciality coffee shop wants to study coffee purchasing habits of customers at her shop. She selected a random sample of 60 customers during a certain week, with the following results:

The amount Spent was X ¯ = $ 7.25 , S = $1 .75 .

Thirty-one customers say they “definitely will� recommend the specialty coffee shop to family and friends.

a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the population mean amount spent was different from $ 6.50 ?

b. Determine the p-value in (a).

c. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that more than 50 % of all the customers say they “definitely will� recommend the speciality coffee shop to family and friends?

d. What is your answer to (a) if the sample mean equals $ 6.25 ?

e. What is your answer to (c) if 398 customers say that “definitely will� recommend the speciality coffee shop to family and friends?

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Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)

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