Question

A national organization has been working with utilities throughout the nation to find sites for large wind machines that generate electricity. Wind speeds must average more than 15 miles per hour (mph) for a site to be acceptable. Recently, the organization conducted wind speed tests at a particular site. Based on a sample of wind speed recordings (taken at random intervals), the wind speed at the site averaged with a standard deviation of To determine whether the site meets the organization's requirements, consider the test, where μ is the true mean wind speed at the site and Fill in the blanks. "A Type I error in the context of this problem is to conclude that the true mean wind speed at the site _____ 15 mph when it actually _____ 15 mph."

Answer 1

Answer:

"A Type I error in the context of this problem is to conclude that the true mean wind speed at the site is higher than 15 mph when it actually is not higher than 15 mph."

Step-by-step explanation:

A Type I error happens when a true null hypothesis is rejected.

In this case, as the claim that want to be tested is that the average wind speed is significantly higher than 15 mph, the null hypothesis has to state the opposite: the average wind speed is equal or less than 15 mph.

Then, with this null hypothesis, the Type I error implies a rejection of the hypothesis that the average wind speed is equal or less than 15 mph. This is equivalent to say that there is evidence that the average speed is significantly higher than 15 mph.

"A Type I error in the context of this problem is to conclude that the true mean wind speed at the site is higher than 15 mph when it actually is not higher than 15 mph."