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Hypothesis Testing - Shopping Time for Women with Children

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The mean shopping time for women with kids is 7.3 minutes. A random sample of women with children in a shopping store gave the following shopping times in minutes:
7.7 8.1 8.2 9.0 5.8 9.3 8.4 6.9 12.1 9.4
8.1 6.2 7.3 7.9 8.2 8.5 7.2 6.3 9.1 8.8

a) Verify that mean=8.1 minutes and s=1.4 min
b) Assume the shopping time followed an approximately normal distribution. Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that the average shopping time foe women with children in Carson mall is higher than the national average for this type of store.

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Excel spreadsheet verifies the mean and standard deviation of a data set around how long women with children in tow spend in a shop, then uses a 5% significance level to test whether these times are higher than the national average in the Carson mall.

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