In: Statistics and Probability
A sports and fitness magazine reported that the average maximum bench-press of high school varsity football players is equal to 185 pounds. A local high school football coach believes that this number is too high. He randomly samples 16 varsity high school football players from the state, which showed a mean maximum bench-press weight of 177 pounds, and a standard deviation of the sample equal to 12.5 pounds. Is the high school football coach’s claim correct? Test the hypothesis at alpha = 0.05. Assume a simple random sample and the distribution is normally distributed.
What is the P-value for this
problem?
If using “Traditional Method,” the calculated value to compare to your alpha for this hypothesis test would be equal to what?