According to a recent study, annual per capita consumption of milk in the United States is 23.8 gallons. Being from the Midwest, you believe milk consumption is higher there and wish to test your hypothesis. A sample of 14 individuals from the Midwestern town of Webster City was selected and then each person's milk consumption was entered below. Use the data to test your hypothesis. a. Develop a hypothesis test that can be used to determine whether the mean annual consumption in Webster City is higher than the national mean.
b. What is a point estimate of the difference between mean annual consumption in Webster City and the national mean? (2 decimals)
c. At α=0.01
test for a significant difference by completing the following.
Calculate the value of the test statistic (2 decimals).
The p-value is (4 decimals).
Reject the null hypothesis?
27.8
23.84
25.25
21
17.52
19.61
19.83
26.18
34.97
30
28.59
20.57
26.94
27.24

a. In the explanation.

b. The point estimate of the difference can be calculated as the difference between the sample mean and the population mean:

c. Test statistic t = 0.90

P-value = 0.1932

The null hypothesis failed to be rejected.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have a sample, wich mean and standard deviation are calculated as:

This is a hypothesis test for the population mean.

The claim is that the consumption of milk in the Midwest is significantly higher than the national average.

Then, the null and alternative hypothesis are:

The significance level is 0.01.

The sample has a size n=14.

The sample mean is M=24.95.

As the standard deviation of the population is not known, we estimate it with the sample standard deviation, that has a value of s=4.8.

The estimated standard error of the mean is computed using the formula:

Then, we can calculate the t-statistic as:

The degrees of freedom for this sample size are:

This test is a right-tailed test, with 13 degrees of freedom and t=0.9, so the P-value for this test is calculated as (using a t-table):

As the P-value (0.1932) is bigger than the significance level (0.01), the effect is not significant.

The null hypothesis failed to be rejected.

There is not enough evidence to support the claim that the consumption of milk in the Midwest is significantly higher than the national average.