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The document discusses conducting a hypothesis test to compare the average weight of students to the average weight of European adults. The null hypothesis is that the average weight is equal to 70.8kg. The alternative hypothesis is that the average weight is not equal to 70.8kg. The test statistic is calculated and compared to critical values at the 5% significance level to determine that the average weight of students is higher than European adults, so the null hypothesis is rejected.

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Solution For Assignment 4.4

The document discusses conducting a hypothesis test to compare the average weight of students to the average weight of European adults. The null hypothesis is that the average weight is equal to 70.8kg. The alternative hypothesis is that the average weight is not equal to 70.8kg. The test statistic is calculated and compared to critical values at the 5% significance level to determine that the average weight of students is higher than European adults, so the null hypothesis is rejected.

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Question

4.4 To conduct hypothesis testing, examine the


average weight of students and compare it with the
average weight of European adults. According to
the data published by Walpole et al. (2012) Links to
an external site on the average body mass (kg) per
region, including Europe, the mean or the average
body mass for the European adult population is
70.8 kg. We set the population mean (μ0)
accordingly, which means μ0 = 70.8 and standard
deviation (σ) = 8.64. Then, we take one random
sample with a sample size of n = 14 and average
weight = 78.61429.

Formulate the competing hypotheses for this test.


Calculate the value of the test statistic. At the 5%
significance level, how does the average weight of
students compare to the average weight of European
adults?
Critical value
Solution
H0: mu = 70.8 for LHS
HA: mu = 70.8
Sigma = 8.62
N = 14
alpha = 5% (It’s a two-tailed test, so 2.5 % on either side of the mean)

Using critical value approach,


Calculating critical value for left hand side = NORM.INV(0.025,70.80,8.64/SQRT(14)) => 66.27
Calculating critical value for right hand side = NORM.INV(0.975,70.80,8.64/SQRT(14)) =>
75.32
Since, our population average is 70.8 and significance level is 5% which is equally distributed on
both the sides.
If the European student average is between two barriers 66.27 and 75.32, we would have
accepted the null hypothesis,
But since the European student average is 70.8 so having 78.61 is a very less likely chance as it
falls within the 2.5% significance level towards the right of mean and will be a very small
number hence rejecting the hypothesis.

Alternate approach:
=NORM.DIST(78.61,70.8,8.64/SQRT(14),1) => 0.999640482
1 - 0.996 => 0.00036(Less than 2.5 %), hence we are rejecting the hypothesis. 66.27417439
Critical value
for RHS

75.32582561

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