Question

A potato chip company makes potato chips in two flavors, Regular and Salt & Vinegar. Riley is a production manager for the company who is trying to ensure that each bag contains about the same number of chips, regardless of flavor. He collects two random samples of 10 bags of chips of each flavor and counts the number of chips in each bag. Assume that the population variances of the number of chips per bag for both flavors are equal and that the number of chips per bag for both flavors are normally distributed. Let the Regular chips be the first sample, and let the Salt & Vinegar chips be the second sample. Riley conducts a two-mean hypothesis test at the 0.05 level of significance, to test if there is evidence that both flavors have the same number of chips in each bag. (a) H0:μ1=μ2; Ha:μ1≠μ2, which is a two-tailed test. (b) t≈1.44 , p-value is approximately 0.167 (c) Which of the following are appropriate conclusions for this hypothesis test?

A. There is insufficient evidence at the 0.05 level of significance to conclude that Regular and Salt & Vinegar chips have different amounts of chips per bag.B. There is sufficient evidence at the 0.05 level of significance to conclude that Regular and Salt & Vinegar chips have different amounts of chips per bag.C. Reject H0.D. Fail to reject H0.

Answer 1

A. There is insufficient evidence at the 0.05 level of significance to conclude that Regular and Salt & Vinegar chips have different amounts of chips per bag.

D. Fail to reject H0.

Explanation:

From the summary of the given test statistics.

The null and the alternative hypothesis are:

`H_0:\mu_1=\mu_2 \\ \\ Ha:\mu_1 \\eq \mu_2`

This test is also a two tailed test.

Similarly, the t value for the test statistics = 1.44

The p- value - 0.167

The level of significance ∝ = 0.05

The objective we are meant to achieve here is to determine which of the following from the given options are appropriate conclusions for this hypothesis test.

From what we have above:

Decision Rule: We fail to reject the null hypothesis since the p-value is greater than the level of significance at 0.05

CONCLUSION: Therefore, we can conclude that there is insufficient evidence at the 0.05 level of significance to conclude that Regular and Salt & Vinegar chips have different amounts of chips per bag as we fail to reject H0.