The Owner of a Local Nightclub Has Recently Surveyed a Random

question 79

Multiple Choice

The owner of a local nightclub has recently surveyed a random sample of n = 250 customers of the club. She would now like to determine whether or not the mean age of her customers is greater than 30. If so, she plans to alter the entertainment to appeal to an older crowd. If not, no entertainment changes will be made. Suppose she found that the sample mean was 30.45 years and the sample standard deviation was 5 years. If she wants to have a level of significance at 0.01, what decision should she make?

• A) Reject H₀.
• B) Reject H₁.
• C) Do not reject H₀.
• D) We cannot tell what her decision should be from the information given.

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