Question

A coffee company wants to make sure that their coffee is being served at the right temperature. If it is too hot, the customers could burn themselves. If it is too cold, the customers will be unsatisfied. The company has determined that they want the average coffee temperature to be 65 degrees C. They take a sample of 20 orders of coffee and find the sample mean to be equal to 70.2 C. What does mu represent for this problem?

Answer 1

Answer:

Null hypothesis:$\mu = 65$  

Alternative hypothesis:$\mu \neq 65$

$t=\frac{\bar X-\mu_o}{\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}}$  (1)  

t-test: "Is used to compare group means. Is one of the most common tests and is used to determine if the mean is (higher, less or not equal) to an specified value".  

For this case the value of $\mu$ represent the parameter associated to the population (True average of cofee temperature)

Step-by-step explanation:

Data given and notation  

$\bar X=70.2$ represent the mean height for the sample  

$s$ represent the sample standard deviation for the sample  

$n=20$ sample size  

$\mu_o =765$ represent the value that we want to test

$\alpha$ represent the significance level for the hypothesis test.  

t would represent the statistic (variable of interest)  

$p_v$ represent the p value for the test (variable of interest)  

State the null and alternative hypotheses.  

We need to conduct a hypothesis in order to check if the true mean i equal to 70.2, the system of hypothesis would be:  

Null hypothesis:$\mu = 65$  

Alternative hypothesis:$\mu \neq 65$  

If we analyze the size for the sample is < 30 and we don't know the population deviation so is better apply a t test to compare the actual mean to the reference value, and the statistic is given by:  

$t=\frac{\bar X-\mu_o}{\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}}$  (1)  

t-test: "Is used to compare group means. Is one of the most common tests and is used to determine if the mean is (higher, less or not equal) to an specified value".  

For this case the value of $\mu$ represent the parameter associated to the population (True average of cofee temperature)