The average height of students in a freshman class of a certain school has been 168.67 cm with a population standard deviation of 8.67 cm. Is there a reason to believe that there has been a change in the average height if a random sample of 49 students in the present freshman class has an average height of 155.04 cm? Use a 0.1 level of significance.   What are the given? Write only the number. : population mean:____ cm population standard deviation:____ cm sample size:____ sample mean:____ cm level of significance:____   What are the critical values? Write the positive critical value first then the negative. z:____ and ____   What is the value of the calculated z? Round your answer to the nearest hundredths.

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The average height of students in a freshman class of a certain school has been 168.67 cm with a population standard deviation of 8.67 cm. Is there a reason to believe that there has been a change in the average height if a random sample of 49 students in the present freshman class has an average height of 155.04 cm? Use a 0.1 level of significance.

 

What are the given? Write only the number. :

population mean:____ cm

population standard deviation:____ cm

sample size:____

sample mean:____ cm

level of significance:____

 

What are the critical values? Write the positive critical value first then the negative.

z:____ and ____

 

What is the value of the calculated z? Round your answer to the nearest hundredths.

z:____

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