I. Two Examples of a Hypothesis Are

question 16

Multiple Choice

i. Two examples of a hypothesis are:
1) mean monthly income from all sources for senior citizens is $841 and
2) twenty percent of juvenile offenders ultimately are caught and sentenced to prison.
ii. Since there is more variability in sample means computed from smaller samples, we have more
Confidence in the resulting estimates and are less apt to reject null hypothesis.
iii. The test statistic for a problem where the population standard deviation is unknown is the
Student's t distribution.

• A) (i), (ii), and (iii) are all correct statements.
• B) (i) is a correct statement but not (ii) or (iii).
• C) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).
• D) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).
• E) (i), (ii), and (iii) are all false statements.

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