Question

Suppose that you had consumer group wanted to test to see if weight of participants in a weight loss program changed (up or down). They computed a 95% confidence interval of the result (-4.977, 2.177). What do we know about the p-value for the test?

Answer 1

Answer:

What we know about the p-value for the test is that it will be less than 0.05

Step-by-step explanation:

The complete question is as follows;

Suppose that you had consumer group wanted to test to see if weight of participants in a weight loss program changed (up or down). They computed a 95% confidence interval of the result (-4.977, -2.177). Suppose that we had a significance test with the following hypothesis:

H0: population mean weight loss = 0

Ha: population mean weight loss does not equal 0

What do we know about the p-value for the test?

solution;

Given the information in the question, we are concerned with saying what we know about the p-value for the test

To answer this question, we shall be looking at it from the angle of the confidence interval

The confidence interval given is 95%.

Now what does this indicate?

It indicates that 95% confidence interval contains only values which are less than 0.

What does this mean for the p-value?

This means that the p-value will be less than 0.05