I. State null and alternative hypotheses.
II. Decide on the significance level, α.
III. Compute the value of the test statistic.
IV. Determine a p-value, P.
V. If P ≤ α reject H0, otherwise do not reject H0.
VI. Interpret the result of the hypothesis test.
6. A biologist was interested in determining whether specific seedlings treated with a new fertilizer resulted in a higher than average height than the standard height of 11.2 cm. The biologist treated a random sample of 24 seedlings with the fertilizer and subsequently obtained the following heights. Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test using a 5% significance level. Be sure to show all of your work including the calculation of the sample mean and sample standard deviation.
11.5 |
11.8 |
15.7 |
12.1 |
10.1 |
10.5 |
16.5 |
13.5 |
14.4 |
16.7 |
10.9 |
10.0 |
11.1 |
17.1 |
13.3 |
12.4 |
8.5 |
14.3 |
12.9 |
11.1 |
15.0 |
13.3 |
9.9 |
13.5 |
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