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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 17 · Statistics · Hypothesis testing

Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 17

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.

An article in the San Jose Mercury News stated that students in the California state university system take 4.5 years, on average, to finish their undergraduate degrees. Suppose you believe that the mean time is longer. You conduct a survey of 49 students and obtain a sample mean of 5.1 with a sample standard deviation of 1.2. Do the data support your claim at the 1% level?

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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 17

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