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An enzymatic reaction converts starch to simple sugars using a fungal enzyme that is very pH sensitive and works efficiently ?f and only if the pH of the reaction environment is ?.20. Your statistician, Mr. Biswadeep Pai decides to use a pH meter that is known to give normally distributed replicate measurements. Suppose that ?0 independent replicate measurements of pH yield the following values: {?. ?8, ?. ?7, ?. ?6, ?. ?5, ?. ?1, ?. ?7, ?. ??, ?. ?8, ?. ?9, ?. ??}.
(a) What conclusion can Biswadeep draw at the ? = ?. ?0 level of significance?
(b) What conclusion can Biswadeep draw at the ? = ?. ?5 level of significance?
(c) Is "?f and only if" in the above problem statement a typo?
First we need to find the mean and SD of data. Following is the output of descriptive statistics:
| Descriptive statistics | |
| X | |
| count | 10 |
| mean | 8.1850 |
| sample standard deviation | 0.0246 |
| sample variance | 0.0006 |
| minimum | 8.15 |
| maximum | 8.22 |
| range | 0.07 |
a)

b)

(c)
No because test is not significant 5% level of significance. So pH level can be 8.20.