In: Statistics and Probability
A hotel manager claims that the average of the price
that customer will pay to stay at their hotel is 500. At α = 0.01
is the claim realistic? The data on the price per night for a
sample of six rooms in the hotel are shown.
Price per
night 713 300 292
311 598 401
618
Give a reason why the claim might be deceptive.
the necessary calculation table:-
price per night (x) | x2 |
713 | 508369 |
300 | 90000 |
292 | 85264 |
311 | 96721 |
598 | 357604 |
401 | 160801 |
618 | 381924 |
sum=3233 | sum=1680683 |
sample size(n) = 7
here, we will do 1 sample t test for mean.
hypothesis:-
test statistic be:-
df = (n-1) = (7-1 ) = 6
p value be :-
[ in any blank cell of excel type =T.DIST(-0.571,6,TRUE) press enter]
decision:-
p value = 0.5887 > 0.01 (alpha)
so, we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
conclusion:-
there is sufficient evidence to support the hotel manager's claim, that the average of the price that customer will pay to stay at their hotel is 500 at 0.01 level of significance.The claim is realistic.