Chapter 9.2, Problem 20P

Please provide the following information for Problems 11-22.

(a) What is the level of significance? State the null and alternate hypotheses.

(b)Check Requirements What sampling distribution will you use? Explain the rationale for your choice of sampling distribution. Compute the appropriate sampling distribution value of the sample test statistic.

(c) Find (or estimate) the P-value. Sketch the sampling distribution and show the area corresponding to the P- value.

(d) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Are the data statistically significant at level ?

(e)Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.

Note: For degrees of freedom d.f. not given 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 by a small amount and therefore produce a slightly more “conservative" answer.

Longevity: HonoluluUSA Today reported that the stale with the longest mean life span is Hawaii, where the population mean life span is 77 years.

A random sample of 20 obituary notices in the Honolulu Advertizer gave the following information about life span (in years) of Honolulu residents:

72	68	81	93	56	19	78	94	83	84
77	69	85	97	75	71	86	47	66	27

Use a calculator with mean and standard deviation keys to verify that $\bar{x}\text{ =71}\text{.4 years and }s\approx \text{ 20}\text{.65 years}\text{.}$

ii.Assuming that life span in Honolulu is approximately normally distributed. Does this information indicate that the population mean life span for Honolulu residents is less than 77 years? Use a 5% level of significance.