SCENARIO 9-3
an Appliance Manufacturer Claims to Have Developed a Compact

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SCENARIO 9-3
An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes a mean of no more than 250 W.From previous studies,it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 15 W.A consumer group has decided to try to discover if the claim appears true.They take a sample of 20 microwave ovens and find that they consume a mean of 257.3 W.
-Referring to Scenario 9-3,the appropriate hypotheses to determine if the manufacturer's claim appears reasonable are:

• A)H ₀ : \(\mu\)= 250 versus H₁ : \(\mu\) \(\neq\)250
• B)H ₀ : \(\mu\) \(\ge\) 250 versus H₁ : \(\mu\) \(\lt\) 250
• C)H ₀ : \(\mu\)\(\le\) 250 versus H₁ : \(\mu\) \(\gt\) 250
• D)H ₀ : \(\mu\) \(\ge\) 257.3 versus H₁ : \(\mu\) \(\lt\) 257.3

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