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A health administration recommends that individuals consume 950 mg of calcium da

ID: 3378487 • Letter: A

Question

A health administration recommends that individuals consume 950 mg of calcium daily. After an advertising campaign aimed at male teenagers, a dairy association states that male teenagers consume more than the recommended daily amount of calcium. To support this statement, the association obtained a random sample of 40 male teenagers and found that the mean amount of calcium consumed was 965 mg, with a standard deviation of 100 mg. Is there significant evidence to support the statement of the association at the a = 0.05 level of significance? Choose the correct hypotheses. Find the test statistic. t_0 = (Round to two decimal places as needed.) Find the P-value. The P-value is (Round to three decimal places as needed.) What conclusion can be drawn? Do not reject H_0. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that male teenagers consume more than the recommended daily amount of calcium. Reject H_0. There is not sufficient evidence to conclude that male teenagers consume less than the recommended daily amount of calcium. Do not reject H_0. There is not sufficient evidence to conclude that male teenagers consume more than the recommended daily amount of calcium. Reject H_0. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that male teenagers consume less than the recommended daily amount of calcium.

Explanation / Answer

Formulating the null and alternative hypotheses,              
              
Ho:   u   <=   950  
Ha:    u   >   950   [ANSWER]

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Getting the test statistic, as              
              
X = sample mean =    965          
uo = hypothesized mean =    950          
n = sample size =    40          
s = standard deviation =    100          
              
Thus, to = (X - uo) * sqrt(n) / s =    0.948683298 [ANSWER, to]  

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As we can see, this is a    right   tailed test.      
Here, df = n - 1 = 39, therefore, the right tailed P value is              
              
p =    0.174311798 [ANSWER, P VALUE]
              

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As P > 0.05, we   FAIL TO REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.  

Thus, it is OPTION C. [ANSWER, C]
              

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