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    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    Multiple Choice: All of the following are possible hypotheses surrounding nominal data except: a. The percentage of people favoring brand A is greater than the percentage favoring brand B. b. The average income of electricians exceeds the average income of carpenters. c. The number of households with term life insurance e

    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    Given a two-tail test for the population mean, the null hypothesis contains a(n) __________ sign, and the alternative hypothesis contains a(n) ___________ sign. a. ¹, = b. =, ³ c. £, = d. =, ¹ Use the following information for questions 3 - 5. The Waterhole bar and grill decided to run a special offer of a fr

    2 True and False questions on hypothesis testing

    1) For any hypothesis test, if the value of a parameter being tested falls outside the confidence interval for the same level of a, the correct decision is to reject the null hypothesis. Is this True or False? 2) Irrespective of whether a two-tail or one-tail test is being conducted in order to compare two population means, t

    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    The educational testing service (ETS) designs and administers the SAT exams. Recently the format of the exam changed and the claim has been made that the new exam can be completed in an average time of 120 minutes. A sample of 50 new exam times yielded an average time of 115 min. The standard deviation is assumed to be 2 minu

    Statistics help: Null and Alternative Hypotheses

    In an attempt to improve quality many manufacturers are developing partnerships with their suppliers. A local fast food burger outfit has partnered with its supplier of potatoes. The burger outfit buys potatoes in bags that weigh 20 lbs. It does not wish to accept underweight bags of potatoes. A sample of 40 bags shows an ave

    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    10.21 An automobile company thinks that with new designs, it scars will last longer before having a problem. For this reason the company wishes to extend the warranty that comes with the vehicle in hopes of attracting more customers. Before making this change the idea is tested. Prior to the design changes, the cars lasted on th

    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    A. A company is thinking about setting up an onsite daycare program for its employees. The CEO has stated that she will do so only if more than 80% of the employees favor such a decision. Set up the null and alternative hypothesis to be tested. b. You are a connoisseur of chocolate chip cookies and you do not think that N

    Null and Alternative Hypothesis

    A vending machine that dispenses coffee into cups must fill the cups with 7.8oz of liquid. Before selling the vending machine to a college or business, the company tests the machine to be sure it is dispensing an average amount of 7.8oz of coffee. A sample of 20 amounts is shown below. The amount of coffee dispensed is assumed

    Testing Hypotheses about a Population Mean

    Fast Service, a chain of automotive tune-up shops, advertises that its personnel can change the oil, replace the oil filter, and lubricate any standard automobile in 15 minutes, on the average. The National Business Bureau received complaints from customers that service takes considerably longer. To check the fast service claim,

    Testing a hypothesis on the age of death for presidents

    Test the hypothesis that there is no difference in the age of the death for the United States Presidents and Vice Presidents. (see attachment for full question) Here are the ages of death for Presidents and Vice Presidents A - Presidents: 67, 90, 83, 85, 73, 80, 78, 79, 68, 71, 53, 65, 74, 64, 77, 56, 66,

    Hypothesis Testing Impacts

    Problems are attached in word format. The questions are posted below to provide quicker review. Thanks, Q1) Does gender impact the use of electronic mail (e-mail)? An insurance company studied the use of e-mail in its organization by counting the number of business-related e-mails generated by 10 men and 10 women matched o

    Variable Interest Sample Identified

    The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) consists of listing of approximately 1,500 companies, which offer shares of company stock to the public. Stockbrokers are interested not only in the individual stocks, but also in general trends established by the market as a whole. They often base inferences upon the daily closing prices of

    Hypothesis Testing , Normal Distribution

    1) Hypothesis Testing A. For the statement: The mean amount of Pepsi in cans is at least 12 oz. Express the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis in symbolic form. B. Find the z value for the following : The claim is u(mu) =12, and the sample statistics include n =36, xbar = 12.19 and s = .11 C. Determine whether

    Hypothesis Testing: Null and Alternate Hypotheses, P Value

    Four Hypothesis Testing problems Problem 10.17: M&M/Mars claims that at least 20% of the M&M's in each package are the new blue color. Set up the null and alternate hypotheses to test this claim. Problem 10.18: The computer center at a university claims that the average amount of time that students spend on-line has incre

    Hypothesis Testing Actual Means

    5. In the past it took Kim 148.4 seconds to swim 200 meters. Kim wants to know if her average has changed. She records her time on 50 randomly selected occasions and computes the mean to be 147.8 seconds with a standard deviation of 2.3 seconds. a. Perform the appropriate test of hypothesis to determine whether Kim's average t

    Statistics - Correlation Coefficient and Hypothesis Testing

    Please provide step by step instructions on how to solve the following problems using actual numbers provided. Thanks 1) A student representative claims that 60% of the students favor a move to division 1. A random sample of 250 students were selected and 140 of them indicated they favored a move to division 1. a. Perform

    Hypothesis Testing- 508

    A. Attitude change is thought to result from the anxiety produced under conditions of cognitive dissonance. The data below represent the anxiety scores of subjects in a dissonance study. Assuming that anxiety is distributed with mean=10 and standard deviation=2 test whether this sample exhibited more anxiety than would be expect

    Using proportional relationships.

    Assume that male snakes of a particular species are all scaled versions of the same basic shape. (i) (a) Describe in words the sort of relationship that you might expect there to be between the volume and the length of a snake. What relationship would you expect there to be between the mass and the length of a snake ?.

    Confidence Interval of True Proportion

    A U.S. Travel Data Center survey of 1500 adults found that 42% of respondents stated that they favor historical sites as vacations. Find the 99% confidence interval of the true proportion of adults who favor visiting historical sites as vacations.

    Hypothesis testing

    21st Century Insurance Company claims that telephone calls for policy holder information are answered in at most 3 minutes. A random survey of 36 phone calls results in the mean 3.3311 and standard deviation 2.1788. Is there sufficient evidence to disprove their claim? Alpha .05

    Average, Standard Deviation, Confidence Interval, Test of Hypothesis

    A vendor supplies refreshments at a baseball stadium and must plan for the possibility of a World Series contest. In the accompanying table, x represents the number of games required to complete a World Series contest. P(x) is the probability that x games are required to complete the contest. x P(x) 4

    Statistics Factors and Variables

    A) What is the response variable and what is the factor? b) Ho many levels of the factor are being studied? c) Is there any difference in the average time to failure of the disks from the 3 different suppliers? If so, which ones are different? d) What is your recommendation to the company and why?

    Diaper Hypothesis - Statistics

    14.1 A diaper company is considering 3 different filler materials for their disposable diapers. Eight diapers were tested with each of the 3 filler materials and 24 toddlers were randomly given a diaper to wear. As the child played, fluid was injected into the diaper every 10 minutes until the product failed (leaked). The amount

    Statistics

    12.17 M&M / Mars claims that at least 20% of the M&M's in each package are the new blue color. Set up the null and alternative hypotheses to test this claim. 12.21 An automobile company thinks that with new designs, its cars will last longer before having a problem. For this reason, the company wishes to extend the warranty