Loretta, who turns 91 this year, has heard that the mean systolic blood pressure among the elderly is 120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), but she believes that the actual value is higher. She bases her belief on a recently reported study of 19 randomly selected, elderly adults. The sample mean systolic blood pressure of the adults in the study was 121 mm Hg , and the sample standard deviation was 20 mm Hg. Assume that the population of systolic blood pressures of elderly adults is normally distributed. Based on the study, at the 0.1 level of significance, can it be concluded that μ , the mean systolic blood pressure among elderly adults, is greater than 120 mm Hg? Perform a one-tailed test. Then complete the parts below. Carry your intermediate computations to three or more decimal places and round your answers as specified in the table. (a) State the null hypothesis H0? and the alternative hypothesis H1? . H0:? H1:? (b) Determine the type of test statistic to use. ▼(Choose one) z ? t ? chi square? f ? (c) Find the value of the test statistic.? (Round to three or more decimal places.) (d) Find the p-value. ? (Round to three or more decimal places.) (e) Can it be concluded, at the 0.1 level of significance, that the mean systolic blood pressure among elderly adults is greater than 120 mm Hg ? Yes or No?

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Loretta, who turns 91 this year, has heard that the mean systolic blood pressure among the elderly is 120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), but she believes that the actual value is higher. She bases her belief on a recently reported study of 19 randomly selected, elderly adults. The sample mean systolic blood pressure of the adults in the study was 121 mm Hg , and the sample standard deviation was 20 mm Hg.

Assume that the population of systolic blood pressures of elderly adults is normally distributed. Based on the study, at the 0.1 level of significance, can it be concluded that μ , the mean systolic blood pressure among elderly adults, is greater than 120 mm Hg? Perform a one-tailed test. Then complete the parts below.

Carry your intermediate computations to three or more decimal places and round your answers as specified in the table.

(a)	State the null hypothesis H0? and the alternative hypothesis H1? .
H0:?
H1:?
(b)	Determine the type of test statistic to use.
	▼(Choose one) z ? t ? chi square? f ?
(c)	Find the value of the test statistic.? (Round to three or more decimal places.)

(d)	Find the p-value. ? (Round to three or more decimal places.)

(e)	Can it be concluded, at the 0.1 level of significance, that the mean systolic blood pressure among elderly adults is greater than 120 mm Hg ?
Yes or No?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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(a) The null and alternative hypothesis is;

$H_{o} : μ = 120 H_{1} : μ > 120$

(b) Here we will be using performing a one sample right tailed t-test.

Hence the correct option is t-test.

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