Complete Question
A scientist believes the concentration of radon gas in the air is greater that the established safe level of 4 pci or less. The scientist tests the composition for 36 days finding an average concentration of 4.4 pci with a sample standard deviation of 1 pci.
a) In testing the scientist's belief, write the appropriate hypotheses:
Ha:
b) What decision should be made?
Answer:
a
The null hypothesis is
The alternative hypothesis is
b
There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the concentration of radon gas in the air is greater that the established safe level of 4pci or less
Step-by-step explanation:
From the question we are told that
The population mean is
The sample size
The sample mean is
The standard deviation is
The level of significance is
The null hypothesis is
The alternative hypothesis is
Generally the test statistics is mathematically represented as
=>
=>
=>
The p-value is mathematically represented as
From the z-table
So from this obtained value we see that
so we reject the null hypothesis
Hence we can conclude that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the concentration of radon gas in the air is greater that the established safe level of 4pci or less