Test Hypotheses About a Population Proportion
-It Is Desired to Test

question 93

Multiple Choice

Test Hypotheses about a Population Proportion
-It is desired to test $\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 8$ against $\mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu \neq 8$ using $\alpha = 0.05$ . The population in question is uniformly distributed with a standard deviation of 1.0. A random sample of 100 will be drawn from this population. If $\mu$ is really equal to $7.9$ , what is the value of $\beta$ associated with this test?

• A) \(0.1700\)
• B) \(0.8300\)
• C) \(0.3300\)
• D) \(0.0850\)

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