Hypothesis Testing: Erwin L. Medina
Hypothesis Testing: Erwin L. Medina
Hypothesis Testing: Erwin L. Medina
TESTING
E RW I N L. M ED I N A
PROBLEM 1 (T-test)
A company manufactures car batteries with an average life span of 2 or more years. An engineer
believes this value to be less. Using 10 samples, he measures the average life span to be 1.8 years
with a standard deviation of 0.15. (a) State the null and alternative hypotheses. (b) At a 99%
confidence level, is there enough evidence to discard the null hypothesis?