Hypothesis Testing — Unit test Answers

What is the mean of the normal distribution shown below?

The annual salaries of all employees at a financial company are normally distributed with a mean of $34,000 and a standard deviation of $4,000. What is the z-score of a company employee who makes an annual salary of $54,000?

Dawn and Pablo are members of a normally distributed population that is being sampled. If the chance of Dawn being included in the sample is 0.05%, what must the chance of Pablo being included in the sample be in order to be able to make inferences about the population based on the sample?

What is the approximate area of the unshaded region under the standard normal curve below? Use the portion of the standard normal table given to help answer the question. z Probability0.000.50001.000.84132.000.97723.000.9987

Julian is a manager at a clothing store for teens. He is analyzing the order for next season. Data for the previous 10 years suggests that teens are willing to spend an average of $75 for a pair of designer jeans with a standard deviation of $5. However, Julian thinks the average may have changed due to a recession. He finds that the last three seasons of data show that teens spent an average of $68 on a pair of jeans. Therefore, he performed a hypothesis test to see if the recent average is the same. Julian used a significance level of 5% to perform the test. Which of the following statements is valid based on the results?