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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.4: Distributions Of Data

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In order to ensure that there is not a large disparity in the quality of education at various schools in a school district, the school board wants to make sure that the variance of the mean standardized-test scores for all students at each school in the district is less than 8. To test this claim, they looked at the mean student scores for the standardized test from a random sample of 27 schools in the district. The results from the survey found that the overall mean was a score of 189.720 with a standard deviation of 2.230. With α=0.05, perform a hypothesis test to determine if the variance is less than 8. Assume that the district standardized-test scores are normally distributed.

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Compute the value of the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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