Question

A group of students wanted to investigate the claim that the average number of text messages sent yesterday by

Answer 1

First we need to write the null and alternate hypothesis for this case.

Let x be the average number of text message sent. Then

Null hypothesis: x = 100
Alternate hypothesis: x > 100

The p value is 0.0853

If p value > significance level, then the null hypothesis is not rejected. If p value < significance level, then the null hypothesis is rejected.

If significance level is 10%(0.10), the p value will be less than 0.10 and we reject the null hypothesis and CAN conclude that:
The mean number of text messages sent yesterday was greater than 100.

If significance level is 5%(0.05), the p value will be greater than 0.05 and we cannot reject the null hypothesis and CANNOT conclude that:
The mean number of text messages sent yesterday was greater than 100.