Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 18

For each of the word problems, use a solution sheet to do the hypothesis test. The solution sheet is found in. Please feel free to make copies of the solution sheets. For the online version of the book, it is suggested that you copy the.doc or the.pdf files.

The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about ten. Members of a personnel department do not believe this figure. They randomly survey eight employees. The number of sick days they took for the past year are as follows: 12; 4; 15; 3; 11; 8; 6; 8. Let x = the number of sick days they took for the past year. Should the personnel team believe that the mean number is ten?

This is an open-ended exercise: its source gives no single answer.

OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 18