Chapter 9: Q .16. (page 564)
Attitudes Refer to Exercises 4 and 10 . What conclusion would you make at the level?
Short Answer
There is convincing evidence to help the claim that older students have better attitudes toward school, on average.
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Chapter 9: Q .16. (page 564)
Attitudes Refer to Exercises 4 and 10 . What conclusion would you make at the level?
There is convincing evidence to help the claim that older students have better attitudes toward school, on average.
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Paying high prices? A retailer entered into an exclusive agreement with a supplier who guaranteed to provide all products at competitive prices. To be sure the supplier honored the terms of the agreement, the retailer had an audit performed on a random sample of 25 invoices. The percent of purchases on each invoice for which an alternative supplier offered a lower price than the original supplier was recorded.17 For example, a data value
of 38 means that the price would be lower with a different supplier for 38% of the items on the invoice. A histogram and some numerical summaries of the data are shown here. The retailer would like to determine if there is convincing evidence that the mean percent of purchases for which an alternative supplier offered lower prices is greater than 50% in the population of this company’s invoices.

a. State appropriate hypotheses for the retailer’s test. Be sure to define your parameter.
b. Check if the conditions for performing the test in part (a) are met.
Ski jump When ski jumpers take off, the distance they fly varies considerably depending on their speed, skill, and wind conditions. Event organizers must position the landing area to allow for differences in the distances that the athletes fly. For a particular competition, the organizers estimate that the variation in distance flown by the athletes will be \(\sigma=10\) \(\sigma=10\) meters. An experienced jumper thinks that the organizers are underestimating the variation.
AttitudesThe Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) is a psychological test that measures students' attitudes toward school and study habits. Scores range from 0 to 200 . Higher scores indicate better attitudes and study habits. The mean score for U.S. college students is about 115. A teacher suspects that older students have better attitudes toward school, on average. She gives the SSHA to an SRS of 45 of the over 1000 students at her college who are at least 30 years of age.
state appropriate hypotheses for performing a significance test. Be sure to define the parameter of interest
No homework? Refer to Exercise 1. The math teachers inspect the
homework assignments from a random sample of 50 students at the school. Only 68% of the students completed their math homework. A significance test yields a P-value of 0.1265.
a. Explain what it would mean for the null hypothesis to be true in this setting.
b. Interpret the P-value.
Stating hypotheses
a. A change is made that should improve student satisfaction with the parking situation at a local high school. Before the change, of students approve of the parking that's provided. The null hypothesis is tested against the alternative Ha:
b. A researcher suspects that the mean birth weights of babies whose mothers did not see a doctor before delivery is less than 3000 grams. The researcher states the hypotheses as
Ha: grams grams
explain what's wrong with the stated hypotheses. Then give correct hypotheses.
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