The State Superintendent of Schools consistently states that the average salary of all substitute teachers in every
Question:
The State Superintendent of Schools consistently states that the average salary of all substitute teachers in every school district is at least $60 per day. The president of the teachers' union believes that the average salary is less than $60 per day. So, she sample eight school districts to help test her claim.
The daily salaries she found for the districts were $60 $56 $60 $55 $70 $55 $60 and, $55
a. What statistical test should be performed? Should this test be one sided or two?
b. Which condition has to be satisfied for the test that we did not have to check for the test on proportions?
c. Write the two hypotheses for the problem.
d. Make a sketch of the distribution indicating the test statistic and p.
e. Compute the appropriate statistical test and report the test statistics and associated p-value.
f. In the context of the problem, write a conclusion to the study and substantiate your conclusion using statistical arguments. Use an alpha level of 0.05.
g. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true daily salary based on the data.
Data Analysis and Decision Making
ISBN: 978-0538476126
4th edition
Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe