A two-tailed test is conducted at the 5% significance level. What is the right tail percentile required to reject the null hypothesis?

User Icon for MathGuru MathGuru answered
12 years ago
97.5

(Left tail would be 2.5)
User Icon for Justice Justice answered
9 years ago
In the past, the mean running time for a certain type of flashlight battery has been 8.0 hours. The manufacturer has introduced a change in the production method and wants to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the mean running time has increased as a result. The hypotheses are:
User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago
To determine the right tail percentile required to reject the null hypothesis in a two-tailed test at the 5% significance level, we need to divide the significance level by 2. In this case, the significance level is 5%, so we divide 5 by 2, which gives us 2.5%.

This means that in order to reject the null hypothesis in the right tail of the distribution, the test statistic must fall in the top 2.5% of the distribution. Therefore, the right tail percentile required to reject the null hypothesis is 2.5%.