Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 15

For each of the word problems, use a solution sheet to do the hypothesis test. The solution sheet is found in Appendix E, Solution Sheets. 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.

In 2009, President Barack Obama announced a new national fuel economy and emissions policy for cars and light trucks. It stated that the combined fleet fuel economy for an auto manufacturer of cars and light trucks will have to average 35.5 mpg or better by 2016. From past studies on fuel economy, it is known that the standard deviation of a typical fleet is 7.6 mpg. An auto manufacturer selects a random sample of 55 cars and light trucks and finds the sample mean fuel economy to be 34.6 mpg with a standard deviation of 10.3 mpg. Can the manufacturer claim that their fleet meets the fuel economy standard in the 2016 policy at the 5 percent level?

This exercise builds on another exercise in its source book, which isn't shown here.

OpenStax, Statistics · §9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples · Exercise 15