Chapter 11: Q.19 (page 655)
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Short Answer
The value of test statistics is .
Chapter 11: Q.19 (page 655)
test statistic =
The value of test statistics is .
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You want to buy a specific computer. A sales representative of the manufacturer claims that retail stores sell this computer at an average price of with a very narrow standard deviation of . You find a website that has a price comparison for the same computer at a series of stores as follows: . Can you argue that pricing has a larger standard deviation than claimed by the manufacturer? Use the significance level. As a potential buyer, what would be the practical conclusion from your analysis?
When looking at energy consumption, we are often interested in detecting trends over time and how they correlate among different countries. The information in Table 11.57 shows the average energy use (in units of kg of oil equivalent per capita) in the USA and the joint European Union countries (EU) for the six-year period 2005 to 2010. DoW? Perform the analysis at the 5% significance level.
A company packages apples by weight. One of the weight grades is Class apples. Class apples have a mean weight of , and there is a maximum allowed weight tolerance of above or below the mean for apples in the same consumer package. A batch of apples is selected to be included in a Classapple package. Given the following apple weights of the batch, does the fruit comply with the Class grade weight tolerance requirements. Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test.
(a) at the significance level
(b) at the significance level Weights in selected apple batch (in grams): ; ; ; ;; ; ; ; 157 ; 171; 152; 161 ; 141; 166; 172;
The standard deviation of heights for students in a school is . A random sample of students is taken, and the standard deviation of heights of the sample is . A researcher in charge of the study believes the standard deviation of heights for the school is greater than .
To find the value of.
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