Question
2. Clothing for runners. Your company sells exercise clothing and equipment on the internet. To design the clothing, you collect data on the physical characteristics of your different types of customers. Here are the weights for a sample of 24 male runners. Assume that these runners can be viewed as a random sample of your potential customers. The weights are expressed in kilograms.
53.1
53.6
55.4
55.8
56
57.8
58.9
59.7
60.4
60.9
61.7
61.9
62.3
62.9
63
63.7
64.7
65
65.6
66
68.3
68.7
69.2
69.3
1483.9
mean 61.82916667
Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean weight of the population of all such runners, assuming that the population standard deviation is 4.5 kg
(a) calculate a 95% confidence interval for the mean weight of all such runners.
(b) Based on this confidence interval, does a test of
H0: m = 61.3 kg
Ha: m not = 61.3 kg
reject H0 at the 5% significance level?
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