Statistics for Business & Economics
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ISBN: 9781337325448
Author: Anderson
Publisher: CENGAGE C
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Chapter 9.4, Problem 34E
Joan’s Nursery specializes in custom-designed landscaping for residential areas. The estimated labor cost associated with a particular landscaping proposal is based on the number of plantings of trees, shrubs, and so on to be used for the project. For cost-estimating purposes, managers use two hours of labor time for the planting of a medium-sized tree. Actual times from a sample of 10 plantings during the past month follow (times in hours).
With a .05 level of significance, test to see whether the
- a. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
- b. Compute the sample mean.
- c. Compute the sample standard deviation.
- d. What is the p-value?
- e. What is your conclusion?
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Chapter 9 Solutions
Statistics for Business & Economics
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