Joan's Nursery specializes in custom-designed landscaping for residential areas. The estimated labor cost associated with a particular landscaping proposal is based on the number of plantings of trees, shrubs, and the project. For cost estimating purposes, managers use two hours of labor time for the planting of a medium-sized tree. Actual times from a sample of 10 plantings during the past month follow (times in hours). 2.1 2.2 1.7 1.6 2.3 1.5 2.6 With a 0.05 level of significance, just to see whether the mean tree-planting time differs from two hours. a. State the null and alternative hypotheses. Ho : p = v H. : u # 10. b. Compute the sample mean. 2.17 ( to 2 decimals) c. Compute the sample standard deviation. 0.4854 (to 4 decimals) d. Find the test statistic and p-value. (Use Table 2 in Appendix B.) 0.301 X ( to 3 decimals) p-value greater than 0.20 e. What is your conclusion? We do not reject the null hypothesis. There is not enough evidence to prove that the mean tree-planting time differs from 2 hours. " Hide Feedback