Assume That a 99% Confidence Interval for the Mean Is $\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu =$

question 33

Multiple Choice

Assume that a 99% confidence interval for the mean is (17.0, 19.0) . Then a hypothesis test of $\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu =$ $16.0 \text { at } a = 0.01$ would result in

• A) Rejecting the null hypothesis because 16.0 is less than 17.0
• B) Accepting the null hypothesis because 16.0 is less than 19.0
• C) Accepting the null hypothesis because 19.0 is more than 17.0
• D) There is insufficient information to make any conclusions about the hypothesis test

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