Researchers studying the effect of diet on growth would like to know if a vegetarian diet affects the height of a child. Twelve students are randomly selected that are all 6-years old. The average height of these kids is 42.5 inches with a standard deviation of 3.8 inches. The average height of all 6-year old kids is found to be 45.75 inches. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if there is overwhelming evidence at alpha = .05 that 6-year old vegetarian kids are not the same height as other six year-old kids. Determine the critical values, test statistic and any specific information from the problem.

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Answer:

a)  [tex]t_{0.035},11=\pm2.201[/tex]

b)  [tex]t=-2.963[/tex]

c)  [tex]Reject\ H_0\ when\ \alpha=0.05[/tex]

d)   [tex]t<t_{\alpha/2},d_t[/tex]

   [tex]-2.963<2.201[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Sample size [tex]n=12[/tex]

Mean [tex]\=x=42.5[/tex]

Standard deviation [tex]\sigma=3.8[/tex]

Population mean [tex]\mu=45.75[/tex]

Significance [tex]\alpha=0.05[/tex]

 

Generally the hypothesis given by

[tex]H_0;\mu=45.75\\H_1:\neq =45.75[/tex]

Generally the equation for test statistics is mathematically given by

[tex]t=\frac{\=x-\mu}{\sigma/\sqrt{n} }[/tex]

[tex]t=\frac{42.5-45.75}{3.8/\sqrt{12} }[/tex]

[tex]t=-2.963[/tex]

Generally the Critical value is mathematically given by

[tex]t_{\alpha/2},d_t[/tex]

[tex]\alpha=0.05 \\\alpha/2=0.025\\d_t=n-1=11[/tex]

[tex]t_{0.035},11[/tex]

From table

[tex]t_{0.035},11=\pm2.201[/tex]

Therefore

[tex]t<t_{\alpha/2},d_t[/tex]

[tex]-2.963<2.201[/tex]

[tex]Reject\ H_0\ when\ \alpha=0.05[/tex]