A pool supply company sells 50-pound buckets of chlorine tablets. A customer believes that the company may be underfilling the buckets. To investigate, an inspector is hired. The inspector randomly selects 30 of these buckets of chlorine tablets and weighs the contents of each bucket. The sample mean is 49.4 pounds with a standard deviation of 1.2 pounds. The inspector would like to know if this provides convincing evidence that the true mean weight of the chlorine tablets in the 50-pound buckets is less than 50 pounds, so he plans to test the hypotheses H0: μ = 50 versus Ha: μ < 50, where μ = the true mean weight of all 50-pound buckets of chlorine tablets. The conditions for inference are met. The test statistic is t = –2.74 and the P-value is between 0.005 and 0.01. What conclusion should be made at the significance level, Alpha? Reject H0. There is convincing evidence that the true mean weight of the chlorine tablets in the 50-pound buckets is less than 50 pounds.
Reject H0. There is not convincing evidence that the true mean weight of the chlorine tablets in the 50-pound buckets is less than 50 pounds.
Fail to reject H0. There is convincing evidence that the true mean weight of the chlorine tablets in the 50-pound buckets is less than 50 pounds.
Fail to reject H0. There is not convincing evidence that the true mean weight of the chlorine tablets in the 50-pound buckets is less than 50 pounds.

step-by-step explanation:

equation

you are asked to write the equation

  expression = 0

using the given expression. when you do that, you have

  2x^2-2x-12 = 0

factoring

you can see that each of the coefficients is even, so a factor of 2 can be removed immediately.

  2(x^2 -x -6) = 0

if you multiply the binomials (x+a)(x+b), you get

  (x +a)(x +b) = x^2 +(a+b)x +ab

this tells you the coefficient of x is the sum of two factors of the constant term. here, that means -1 is the sum of two factors of -6. we want to know those factors so we can factor the trinomial.

  -6 = -1×6 = -2×3 = -3×2 = -6×1

the factor pair that sums to -1 is {-3, 2}, so our factorization is

  2(x -3)(x +2) = 0

solutions

the solutions to this equation are the values of x that make the product zero. a product is zero only when only of the factors of the product is zero. here, that means

  x - 3 = 0

  x = 3 . . . add 3 to both sides of the equation

or

  x +2 = 0

  x = -2 . . . add -2 to both sides of the equation

the solutions to the equation are x=3 or x=-2. both of these values of x satisfy the equation—they make it be true.

i found two solutions,   n = 2 • ± √3 = ± 3.4641

step-by-step explanation:

a

step-by-step explanation:

when a number is between two straight lines it means the absolute value.

to find absolute value you need to know how many numbers is that number away from 0.

when finding absolute value the number will always come out positive

so absolute value of -3 is 3

absolute value of 3/2 is 3/2

absolute value of -2 is 2

absolute value of 3.5 is 3.5

absolute value of -1 is 1

now put these numbers in order:

a)   |-1|, |3/2|, |-2|, |-3|, |3.5|