SOLUTION: A chicken farmer claims that his chickens have a mean weight of 58 ounces. The farmer takes a random sample of 36 chickens and finds a mean weight of 59.2 ounces and a standard dev
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Question 550275: A chicken farmer claims that his chickens have a mean weight of 58 ounces. The farmer takes a random sample of 36 chickens and finds a mean weight of 59.2 ounces and a standard deviation of 3 ounces. If you wish to conduct a hypothesis test to test the farmers claim, what would be the value of the test statistic?
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A chicken farmer claims that his chickens have a mean weight of 58 ounces. The farmer takes a random sample of 36 chickens and finds a mean weight of 59.2 ounces and a standard deviation of 3 ounces. If you wish to conduct a hypothesis test to test the farmers claim, what would be the value of the test statistic?
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t(59.2) = (59.2-58)/sqrt[3/sqrt(36)] = 1.6971
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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