A random sample of 25 values is drawn from a mound-shaped and symmetrical distribution. The sample mean is 10 and the sample standard deviation is 2. Use a level of significance of 0.05 to conduct a two-tailed test of the claim that the population mean is 9.5.
(a) Is it appropriate to use a Student’s t distribution? Explain. How many degrees of freedom do we use?
(b) What are the hypotheses?
(c) Compute the sample test statistic t.
(d) Estimate the P-value for the test.
(e) Do we reject or fail to reject H0?
(f) Interpret the results.