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Joan’s Nursery specializes in custom-designed landscaping for residential areas. The estimated labor cost associated with a particular landscaping proposal is based on the number of plantings of trees, shrubs, and so on to be used for the project. For costestimating purposes, managers use two hours of labor time for the planting of a medium-sized tree. Actual times from a sample of 10 plantings during the past month follow (times in hours).
1.7 1.5 2.6 2.2 2.4 2.3 2.6 3.0 1.4 2.3
With a .05 level of significance, test to see whether the mean tree-planting time differs from two hours.
a. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
b. Compute the sample mean.
c. Compute the sample standard deviation.
d. What is the p-value?
e. What is your conclusion?

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Answer from: Blaise2653

We conclude that mean tree-planting time is two hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following data about plantings in hours in the question:

1.7, 1.5, 2.6, 2.2, 2.4, 2.3, 2.6, 3, 1.4, 2.3

b) Sample mean

$Mean = \displaystyle\frac{\text{Sum of all observations}}{\text{Total number of observation}}$

$Mean =\displaystyle\frac{22}{10} = 2.2$

c) Formula for sample standard deviation

$\text{Standard Deviation} = \sqrt{\displaystyle\frac{\sum (x_i -\bar{x})^2}{n-1}}$

where x_i are data points, $\bar{x}$ is the mean and n is the number of observations.

Sum of squares of differences = 2.4

$s= \sqrt{\dfrac{2.4}{9}} = 0.516$

Population mean, μ = 2 hours

Sample mean, $\bar{x}$ = 2.2 hours

Sample size, n = 10

Alpha, α = 0.05

Sample standard deviation, s = 0.516 hours

a) the null and the alternate hypothesis are

$H_{0}: \mu = 2\text{ hours}\\H_A: \mu \neq 2\text{ hours}$

We use two-tailed t test to perform this hypothesis.

Formula:

$t_{stat} = \displaystyle\frac{\bar{x} - \mu}{\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}} }$

Putting all the values, we have

$t_{stat} = \displaystyle\frac{2.2 - 2}{\frac{0.516}{\sqrt{10}} } = 1.2256$

d) We calculate the p-value from the table.

P-value = 0.251453

e) Conclusion:

Since, p value is greater than thee significance level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and accept it.

Thus, we conclude that mean tree-planting time does not differs from two hours.

Answer from: crodriguez87

The mean tree-planting time is two hours.

Given that ,

Actual times from a sample of 10 plantings during the past month n = 10

The observation are = 1.7, 1.5, 2.6, 2.2, 2.4, 2.3, 2.6, 3.0, 1.4, 2.3.

Sum of all the observations = 1.7+1.5+2.6+ 2.2+ 2.4 +2.3 +2.6 +3.0 +1.4 +2.3 = 22.

The sample mean = $\frac{sum of all the observation}{total no. of the observation}$

Mean = $\frac{22}{10}$ = 2.2

The sample mean is 2.2 .

Standard deviation = $\frac{\sqrt {\Sigma(x_1 - x )^{2} } }{n- 1} \\\\$

$= \frac{\sqrt{(2.4 ) } }{10 - 1} \\\\= 0.54$

Where x_1 are data points and x is the mean and the n is the no. of samples

Population mean, μ = 2 hours

Sample mean, = 2.2 hours

,Sample size n = 10

Alpha, α = 0.05

Sample standard deviation, s = 0.516 hours.

The null and alternative hypotheses.

$H_0 =\mu = 2 hours \\\\H_a = \mu \neq 2 hours$ $\mu = 2 hours \\\\H_a = \mu \neq 2 hours$

Using two tailed test to perform this hypothesis

$t_stat = \frac{x-\mu}{\frac{s}{\sqrt{n} } } \\ \\\\= \frac{2.2 - 2}{\frac{0.516}{\sqrt{10} } } \\\\= \frac{0.2}{3.16} \\\\= 1.25$

The value of the p calculate from the table is 0.2514.Conclusion: Since, p value is greater than the significance level, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and accept it.

Thus, we conclude that mean tree-planting time does not differs from two hours.

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Answer from: Quest

the total estimated nappy use.=10,500,000

step-by-step explanation:

given that on an average the average baby uses 3528 napkins.

in a particular year 2014, the number of births were 299697 in new south wales.

rounding off the number of births to the nearest hundred thousand we have

no of birtsh = 300000

also rounding off the average usage to nearst thousand we get

average use of a baby = 3500

hence total number of nappy estimated to be used = 3500x300000

= 10,500,000

answer is 10,500,000 nappies

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