Understanding Basic Statistics
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Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
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Chapter 9.3, Problem 24P
(a)
To determine
The level of significance, null and alternative hypothesis.
(b)
To determine
To find: The sampling distribution that should be used and compute the value of the sample test statistic.
(c)
To determine
To find: The critical value of the test statistic and sketch the sampling distribution showing the critical region.
(d)
To determine
Whether we reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis and whether the data is statistically significant for a level of significance of 0.01.
(e)
To determine
The interpretation for the conclusion.
(f)
To determine
The comparison for our conclusion with the conclusion obtained from the P-value method.
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