Question

Is the ideal number of children equal to 2, or higher or lower than that?

For testing that the mean response from a recent survey equals 2.0 for the question, "What do you think is the ideal number of children to have?"
The following output is obtained from a standard statistical software package: a. Report the test statistic value, and show how it was obtained from other values reported in the table.
b. Explain what the P-value represents, and interpret its value.

Answer 1

Explanation:

a, test statistic obtain using values from the output... please see the attached picture for solution.

b, based on the output , the probability value is zero meaning the null hypothesis was true.

it can be concluded that the population mean does not equal ton 2.