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A sample of grocery store receipts has a mean of $157 and a standard error of th

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Question

A sample of grocery store receipts has a mean of $157 and a standard error of the mean of $4.77. Your job is to decide whether or not the mean of sales at this grocery store is different from $150.

Based on this test, you found that your test statistic does not fall in the rejection region, so you _______________ the null hypothesis and conclude that ________________.

A.) fail to reject; the mean of the populatin our sample came from is not $150

B.) fail to reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is $150

C.) reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is not $150

D.) reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is $150

A.) fail to reject; the mean of the populatin our sample came from is not $150

B.) fail to reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is $150

C.) reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is not $150

D.) reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is $150

Explanation / Answer

As the z score does not fall in the rejection region, we do not reject Ho.

As Ho: u = 150, thus,

OPTION B: fail to reject; the mean of the population our sample came from is $150 [ANSWER]