Question: 3. From generation to generation, the mean age when smokers first start to smoke varies. However, the standard deviation of that age remains constant of


3. From generation to generation, the mean age when smokers first start to smoke varies. However, the standard deviation of that age remains constant of around 2.1 years. A survey of 40 smokers of this generation was done to see if the mean starting age is at least 19. The sample mean was 18.1 with a sample standard deviation of 1.3. Do the data support the claim at the 5% level? (justify your answer by hypothesis testing) 4. The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about ten. Members of a personnel department do not believe this figure. They randomly survey eight employees. The number of sick days they took for the past year are as follows: 12, 4, 15, 3, 11, 8, 6, 8. Let x be the number of sick days they took for the past year. Should the personnel team believe that the mean number is ten? 5. The student academic group on a college campus claims that freshman students study at least 3 hours per day, on average. One Introduction to Statistics class was skeptical. The class took a random sample of 30 freshman students and found a mean study time of 140 minutes with a standard deviation of 45 minutes. At a = 0.05 level, is the student academic group's claim correct
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