Question

A sanitation supervisor is interested in testing to see if the mean amount of garbage per bin is different from 50. In a random sample of 36 bins, the sample mean amount was 50.67 pounds and the sample standard deviation was 3.9 pounds.

a) Conduct the appropriate hypothesis test using a 0.1 level of significance.
b) What is the test statistic? Give your answer to four decimal places.
c) What is the P-value for the test? Give your answer to four decimal places.
d) What is the appropriate conclusion?
i. Fail to reject the claim that the mean amount per bin is 50 pounds because the P-value is larger than 0.1.
ii. Fail to reject the claim that the mean amount per bin is 50 pounds because the P-value is smaller than 0.1.
iii. Reject the claim that the mean amount per bin is 50 pounds because the P-value is larger than 0.1.
iv. Reject the claim that the mean amount per bin is 50 pounds because the P-value is smaller than 0.1.

Answer 1

Explanation:

99% =2.58

xbar / Point Est. 50.67

µ 50

σ 3.9

n 36

Confidence Interval

50-> (48.9,52.44) -> Fail to Reject H0

Test Statistic 1.0308

P-Value 0.1549