The workweek for adults in the US that work full time is
normally distributed with a mean of 47 hours. A newly hired
engineer at a start-up company believes that employees at start-up
companies work more on average then working adults in the US. She
asks 15 engineering friends at start-ups for the lengths in hours
of their workweek. Their responses are shown in the table below.
Test the claim using a 5% level of significance.
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The hypotheses for this problem are:
H0: μ = 47
H1: μ > 47
Find the test statistic. Round answer to 4 decimal places. Test Statistic t =
44 |
43 |
54 |
50 |
48 |
46 |
48 |
48 |
50 |
46 |
55 |
55 |
52 |
54 |
46 |
ANS.
Obs. | x | x2 |
1 | 44 | 1936 |
2 | 43 | 1849 |
3 | 54 | 2916 |
4 | 50 | 2500 |
5 | 48 | 2304 |
6 | 46 | 2116 |
7 | 48 | 2304 |
8 | 48 | 2304 |
9 | 50 | 2500 |
10 | 46 | 2116 |
11 | 55 | 3025 |
12 | 55 | 3025 |
13 | 52 | 2704 |
14 | 54 | 2916 |
15 | 46 | 2116 |
Sum | 739 | 36631 |
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