A Manufacturer Makes Ball Bearings That Are Supposed to Have

question 10

Essay

A manufacturer makes ball bearings that are supposed to have a mean weight of 30 g. 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 29.2 g with a standard deviation of 4.2 g. At the 0.05 significance level, test the claim that the sample comes from a population with a mean weight less than 30 g. Use the traditional method of testing hypotheses.

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