47. At Western University the historical mean of scholarship examination scores for freshman applications is 900. A

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47. At Western University the historical mean of scholarship examination scores for freshman applications is 900. A historical population standard deviation σ  180 is assumed known.

Each year, the assistant dean uses a sample of applications to determine whether the mean examination score for the new freshman applications has changed.

a. State the hypotheses.

b. What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean examination score if a sample of 200 applications provided a sample mean of  935?

c. Use the confidence interval to conduct a hypothesis test. Using α  .05, what is your conclusion?

d. What is the p-value?

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Essentials Of Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780324568608

5th Edition

Authors: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams

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