Question

According to a survey, people in a certain country ate an average of 211 meals in restaurants in 2001. The data in the accompanying table show the number of meals eaten in restaurants as determined from a random sample of people in this country in 2009. Complete parts (a) through (d) below. LOADING... Click the icon to view the data table. a. Using alphaequals0.05 , test the hypothesis that the number of meals eaten at restaurants by people in this country has not changed since 2001. Determine the null and alternative hypotheses. Choose the correct answer below. A. Upper H 0 : mu equals 211 and Upper H 1 : mu greater than 211 B. Upper H 0 : mu equals 211 and Upper H 1 : mu not equals 211 C. Upper H 0 : mu greater than or equals 211 and Upper H 1 : mu less than 211 D. Upper H 0 : mu not equals 211 and Upper H 1 : mu equals 211

Answer 1

Here, as we are testing whether the number of meals eaten at restaurants by people in this country has not changed since 2001, therefore the null and the alternate hypothesis here would be given as:

These are the required null and the alternate hypothesis here.