Question

Sam feels that students score better on math tests that take place on Fridays. The school provides Sam with the school math test average, but they cannot separate them by date taken. The school is too large for him to ask every student, so he randomly selects a sample of willing students' test scores after the next Friday's math test. He uses the method of hypothesis testing to compare the Friday scores against the true average of all scores. Frame the correct set of hypotheses for his research. Decide where the rejection region will lie.

Answer 1

H0 : μ ≤ x

H1 : μ > x

The hypothesis :

The null hypothesis, H0 : μ ≤ x

The alternative hypothesis, uses the Friday score samples to compare the hypothesis ;

The alternative hypothesis, H1 : μ > 8

For then null, the mean scores is assumed to be the same, and has such mean of Friday's test score takes the value of the population.

Let the population mean value = x

The alternative hypothesis is the claim that the sampled mean gives a greater value than the population mean :

H1 : μ > x