(CO 5) A state Department of Transportation claims that the mean wait time for various services at its different location is more than 6 minutes. A random sample of 16 services at different locations has a mean wait time of 9.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 7.3 minutes. At α=0.01, can the department’s claim be supported assuming the population is normally distributed? Group of answer choices
No, since p of 0.037 is greater than 0.01, fail to reject the null. Claim is alternative, so is not supported
No, since p of 0.037 is greater than 0.01, reject the null. Claim is null, so is not supported
Yes, since p of 0.037 is greater than 0.01, fail to reject the null. Claim is null, so is supported
Yes, since p of 0.037 is less than 0.07, reject the null. Claim is alternative, so is supported
First option is correct i.e.
No. P of 0.037 is greater than 0.01, fail to reject null. Claim is alternative. So is not supported.
(since, here the hypothesis to test is :
Null H0 : mean wait time is 6 minutes
V/s
Alternative H1 : mean wait time is more than 6 minites(department's claim)
i.e.
H0 : = 6 v/s > 6, if H0 gets accepted, then it can be said that department's claim is incorrect.
We have decision rule,
If p-value > alpha(confidence coefficient) = 0.01
Then we accept H0.
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