The quality control manager at a plant that produces canned peaches is setting up a hypothesis test about the amount of peaches in the can. The cans are supposed to contain 142mL of peaches.
a. What should the null and alternative hypotheses be for this situation?
b. Explain the Type I and Type II errors in the context of the canned peaches.
c. If you were a consumer buying the peaches, which type of error would be most important to you? Why?