Data Were Collected from the Sale of 25 Properties by a Local

question 142

Multiple Choice

Data were collected from the sale of 25 properties by a local real estate agent. The following printout concentrated on the land value variable from the sampled properties. HYPOTHESIS: MEAN $X = x$


SD. ERROR $= 3308.43$
Suppose we are interested in testing whether the mean land value from this neighborhood differs from 42,782 . Which hypotheses would you test?

• A) \(H _ { 0 } : \mu \neq 42,782\) vs. \(H _ { \mathrm { a } } : \mu = 42,782\)
• B) \(H _ { 0 } : \mu = 42,782\) vs. \(H _ { \mathrm { a } } : \mu < 42,782\)
• C) \(H _ { 0 } : \mu = 42,782\) vs. \(H _ { \mathrm { a } } : \mu > 42,782\)
• D) \(H _ { 0 } : \mu = 42,782\) vs. \(H _ { \mathrm { a } } : \mu \neq 42,782\)

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