A manufacturer makes ball bearings that are supposed to have a mean weight of 30g. A retailer suspects that the mean weight is actually less than 30 g. The mean weight for a random sample of 16 ball bearings is 28.8 g with a standard deviation of 3.9 g At the 0.05 significance level test the claim that the sample comes from a population with a mean weight less tan 30g Assume that the weights are normally distributed. Choose an answer for each question

The alternative hypothesis is? A) µ ≠ 30.0 B) µ < 30.0 C) µ ≥30.0 D) µ< 28.8
The type of test is a) left tail b) right tail c) two tail
The test statistic for this hypothesis test is? -1.75 -1.52 -1.97 or -1.23
The critical value for the rejection region is -1.645 -1.753 -1.96 -1.697

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However, I will start you out.

Ha: µ < 30

Z = (score-mean)/SEm

SEm = SD/√n
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