In: Statistics and Probability
A group of students estimated the length of one minute without reference to a watch or clock, and the times (seconds) are listed below. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that these times are from a population with a mean equal to 60 seconds. Does it appear that students are reasonably good at estimating one minute?
72
81
36
63
45
27
60
66
68
49
62
73
92
89
65
Determine the test statistic. __
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
Determine the P-value. __
(Round to three decimal places as needed.)
Null hypothesis
Alternative hypothesis
We have for given sample,
Population mean for given sample=60
Sample mean=63.2
Sample standard deviation s=18.155
Sample size =n= 15
Degree of freedom = n-1 =14
t test statistic formula is
P value is =0.508.....................by using Excel command TDIST(0.68,14,2)
P value is =0.508 > 0.01
We do not have sufficient evidence at to say that , students are reasonably good at estimating one minute