Question:(A) The students at Littlewood Regional High School cut an
average of 3.3 classes per month....
Question
(A) The students at Littlewood Regional High School cut an
average of 3.3 classes per month....
(A) The students at Littlewood Regional High School cut an
average of 3.3 classes per month. A random sample of 117 seniors
averages 3.8 cuts per month, with a standard deviation of 0.53. Are
seniors significantly different from the student body as a whole?
(HINT: the wording of the research question suggests a two-tailed
test. This means that the alternative, or research, hypothesis in
step 2 will be stated as H1: m ? 3.3 and that the critical region
will be split between the upper and lower tails of the sampling
distribution. See Table 8.1 for values of Z(critical) for various
alpha levels. )
(B) What if the research question were changed to “Do seniors
cut a significantly greater number of classes”? How would the test
conducted in prob- lem 8.2a change? (HINT: This wording implies a
one tailed test of significance. How would the research hypothesis
change? For the alpha you used in problem A, what would the value
of Z (critical) be?)