Question #348081

The maen travel time of light Puerto princesa city -iloilo is said to be 1.5hours .A certain airfare company recorded 20 different flights actual travel time.the mean is 2 hours with a standard deviation of 0.6hours .







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2022-06-06T23:48:50-0400

The following null and alternative hypotheses need to be tested:

H0:μ=1.5H_0:\mu=1.5

H1:μ1.5H_1:\mu\not=1.5

This corresponds to a two-tailed test, for which a t-test for one mean, with unknown population standard deviation, using the sample standard deviation, will be used.

Based on the information provided, the significance level is α=0.05,\alpha = 0.05, df=n1=19df=n-1=19 and the critical value for a two-tailed test is tc=2.093024.t_c =2.093024.

The rejection region for this two-tailed test is R={t:t>2.093024}.R = \{t:|t|>2.093024\}.

The t-statistic is computed as follows:


t=xˉμs/n=21.50.6/20=3.7268t=\dfrac{\bar{x}-\mu}{s/\sqrt{n}}=\dfrac{2-1.5}{0.6/\sqrt{20}}=3.7268


Since it is observed that t=3.7268>2.093024=tc,t=3.7268>2.093024=t_c, it is then concluded that the null hypothesis is rejected.

Using the P-value approach:

The p-value for two-tailed, df=19df=19 degrees of freedom, t=3.7268t=3.7268 is p=0.001426,p= 0.001426, and since p=0.001426<0.05=α,p= 0.001426<0.05=\alpha, it is concluded that the null hypothesis is rejected.

Therefore, there is enough evidence to claim that the population mean μ\mu

is different than 1.5, at the α=0.05\alpha = 0.05 significance level.


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