AP Statistics : How to do one-sided tests of significance
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Example Question #1 : Significance Logic And Establishing Hypotheses
A pretzel company advertises that their pretzels contain less than 1.0g of of sodium per serving. You take a simple random sample of 10 pretzel servings, and calculate that the mean amount of sodium is 1.20 g, with a standard deviation of 0.1 g.
At the 95% confidence level, does your sample suggest that the pretzels actually have higher than 1.0g of sodium per serving?
No, because t=6.32 and p=0.99993153
Yes, because t= 6.32 and p=0.00006847
Yes, because t= 6.32 and p=0.00013694
No, because t=6.22 and p=0.96593153
No, because t=6.32 and p=0.00006847
Yes, because t= 6.32 and p=0.00006847
This is a one- tailed t-test. It is one-tailed because the question asks whether the pretzel's mean is actually higher, so we are only interested in the right hand tail. We will be using the t-distribution because the population standard deviation is not known.
First we write our hypotheses:
Now we need the appropriate formula for a t-test. We will be using standard error because we are working with the standard deviation of a sampling distribution.
Now we fill in the values from our problem
Now we must look up the t-critical value, or use technology to find the p-value.
We must find the t-critcal value by finding
Because our test statistic 6.32 is more extreme than our critical value, we reject our null hypothesis and conclude that the pretzels do have a higher mean than 1.0.
If you calculated a p-value using technology, p=0.00006884.
Because 
Example Question #1 : How To Do One Sided Tests Of Significance
James goes to UCLA, and he believes that the atheletes of UCLA are better runners, than the country average. He did a bit of a research and found that the national average time for a two-mile run for college atheletes is 
Is James' data statistically significant? Can we confirm that UCLA atheletes are better than average runners? And if so, to which level of certainty: 
Yes, to a certainty of
Yes, to a certainty of
No, the data is not statistically significant
Yes, to a certainty of
Yes, to a certainty of
Yes, to a certainty of
Using a Z-test (we have population SD, not sample SD) and a population of 
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