In the past, the average age of employees of a large corporation has been 40 years.Recently, the company has been hiring older individuals.In order to determine whether there has been an increase in the average age of all the employees, a sample of 64 employees was selected.The average age in the sample was 45 years with a standard deviation of 16 years.Let α = .05. a. State the null and the alternative hypotheses. b. Compute the test statistic. c. Using the p-value approach, test to determine whether or not the mean age of all employees is significantly more than 40 years.
a. H0: μ 40 years Ha: μ > 40 years b. t = 2.5 c. p-value (.0075) is between .005 and .01; reject H0; the mean age of all employees is significantly more than 40 years.
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Solve the following proportion for the unknown quantity: 1.89: 0.31 = 175: k, to one decimal place.