A Golfer Wished to Find a Ball That Would Travel

question 30

Essay

A golfer wished to find a ball that would travel more than 170 yards when hit with his 6-iron with a club head speed of 90 miles per hour. He had a golf equipment lab test a low compression ball by having a robot swing his club 12 times at the required speed. State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of how much values in a set differ from the mean of the set.

Central Tendency

A descriptive summary of a dataset through a single value that reflects the center of the data's distribution, often illustrated by the mean, median, or mode.

Alternative Hypothesis

The hypothesis that proposes a significant effect or difference, in contrast to the null hypothesis.

One-way ANOVA

An analytical procedure designed to evaluate if distinct, unrelated groups of three or more have statistically meaningful differences in their mean values.