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    Testing A Hypothesis About A Population Mean: 1. What Is The H 2. What's H

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    1. The null hypothesis (H0) is that the mean contents of cola cans is equal to the advertised 300ml. 2. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is that the mean contents of cola cans is less than the advertised 300ml. 3. A student measures the contents of six cola cans and finds a sample mean that is slightly lower than 300ml.

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    1. The null hypothesis (H0) is that the mean contents of cola cans is equal to the advertised 300ml. 2. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is that the mean contents of cola cans is less than the advertised 300ml. 3. A student measures the contents of six cola cans and finds a sample mean that is slightly lower than 300ml.

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    1. The null hypothesis (H0) is that the mean contents of cola cans is equal to the advertised 300ml. 2. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is that the mean contents of cola cans is less than the advertised 300ml. 3. A student measures the contents of six cola cans and finds a sample mean that is slightly lower than 300ml.

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    TESTING A HYPOTHESIS ABOUT A POPULATION MEAN

    Cans of a popular cola drink are supposed to contain 300 milliliters (ml) of cola. There is some
    variation from can to can because the filling machinery is not perfectly precise. The distribution
    of the contents is normal with stdev = 3 ml. A student who suspects that the canner is
    criminally underfilling the cans measures the contents of six cans. The results are
    299.4 297.7 301.0 298.9 300.2 297.0
    Is this convincing evidence that the mean contents of cola bottles is less than the advertised
    300ml?
    1. What is the H
    0
    ? H
    0
    :
    2. Whats H
    a
    ? H
    a
    :
    Think about whether your hypotheses are one-sided or two-sided!!! This will affect the
    way you calculate probabilities!!
    3. Whats the sample size? n=
    Enter the data into an Excel spreadsheet. Find the mean of the sample.
    4. Calculate the z test statistic for this sample. z =
    (the value of z for the sample allows us to
    perform a probability calculation to test the
    significance of this finding against the H
    0
    )
    You can ask Excel to calculate this using the "standardize" function enter the mean of
    your sample, the population mean, and the standard error (not the given variance!!) and
    you will get a z-statistic. This is annoying because you have to calculate the standard
    error by hand
    5. Given an actual population mean of 300, what is the probability of getting a sample with the
    mean that we did or lower?
    P (x-bar Z from above) =
    You can do this in Excel by finding the ztest function enter the array of data, the
    population mean, and the population standard deviaton (not variance!). Excel will give
    you the two-tailed value of the z-test. That means, if your hypothesis was one-sided, you
    should
    So, is this convincing evidence that the mean contents of cola bottles is less than the advertised
    300ml?

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