Question

The Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) is a psychological test that measures the motivation, attitude, and study habits of college students. Scores range from 0 to 200 and follow (approximately) a Normal distribution with a mean of 115 and a standard deviation of 25. You suspect that incoming freshmen at your school have a mean μ, which is different from 115 because they are often excited yet anxious about entering college. To test your suspicion, you decide to test the hypotheses H0: μ = 115 versus Ha: μ ≠ 115. You give the SSHA to 25 incoming freshmen and find their mean score to be 116.2. What is the value of the test statistic?

A) z = 0.048
B) z = 0.24
C) z = 1.2
D) z = 1.96

Answer 1

option B

Explanation:

hypothesis test:

H₀ : μ = 115

Ha: μ ≠ 115

This is two tailed test

`\bar{x} = 116.2`

`\sigma = 25`

n = 25

significance level = ∝ = 0.05

`Z =\frac{\bar{x} -\mu}{(\sigma)/(√(n))}`

`Z =(116.2 - 115 )/((25)/(√(25)))`

`Z =(116.2 - 115 )/((25)/(5))`

`Z =(1.2)/(5)`

Z = 0.24

the correct answer is option B