Made Fresh pasta averages a wait time of 20 minutes for customers to pick up their take-out
Question:
Made Fresh pasta averages a wait time of 20 minutes for customers to pick up their take-out orders. Periodically, the manager will take a sample of the orders to see if the wait times have increased. A sample of 36 orders is selected from a Friday afternoon. The sample mean wait time is 21 minutes. The population is known to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 5 minutes. Conduct the following test of hypothesis using the 0.05 significance level:
H0: µ ≤ 20
H1: µ > 20
(a) Is this a one- or two-tailed test?
(b) What is the decision rule?
(c) What is the value of the test statistic?
(d) What is your decision regarding H0?
(e) Determine the p-value and interpret it.
Step by Step Answer:
Basic Statistics For Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781259268939
6th Canadian Edition
Authors: Douglas A. Lind, William G Marchal, Samuel A. Wathen, Carol Ann Waite