A Quality Control Supervisor Wishes to Determine Whether the Following

question 16

Multiple Choice

A quality control supervisor wishes to determine whether the following measurements are random: For this purpose,the supervisor computes the median of the thirty observations above and compares each measurement to the median to perform a runs test.She uses a significance level of 0.05.The appropriate decision is ______.

• A) reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the observations are random
• B) reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the observations are not random
• C) do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the observations are random
• D) do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the observations are not random
• E) do nothing

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