Given: Null Hypothesis Is That the Population Mean Is 16

question 23

Multiple Choice

Given: null hypothesis is that the population mean is 16.9 against the alternative hypothesis that the
Population mean is not equal to 16.9. A random sample of 16 items results in a sample mean of 18.0
And the sample standard deviation is 2.4. It can be assumed that the population is normally
Distributed. Determine the observed "t" value.

• A) t = 2.12
• B) t = 1.50
• C) t = 1.75
• D) t = 1.83

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