Worked solution
Test cereal mass and invert a two-sided rejection
The mass, kg, of the contents of each packet in a random sample of 80 cereal packets is measured, with and .
(i) Test, at the 4% level of significance, whether the population mean mass of the contents is less than 1.10 kg.
(ii) In another test using the same data at 4%, states that the population mean is kg and states that it is not kg. Given that is rejected in favour of , find the set of possible values of .
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CJC · Lecture · Example 5
(i) Estimate the moments and set up the lower-tail test
kg and . Test against , with the population mean content mass. Under , use by the large-sample approximation. Individual normality is not given.
(i) Calculate p and conclude
gives . Reject : sufficient evidence at 4% that mean content mass is below 1.10 kg. The source prints variance 0.27088 and uses estimated SD 0.52046133381837 in Z-Test Stats with , , , lower alternative. Its screen shows and , printed as 0.034418. This source result is distinct from the full-precision calculation but gives the same decision.
(ii) Use both rejection tails
For against , the 4% test assigns 0.02 to each tail. With , reject when . The original PDF visibly includes the absolute-value bars, although extraction loses them. Equivalently, or .
(ii) Preserve exact boundaries and qualify the printed set
The full-precision boundaries are or . The source’s intermediate values are 0.87462 and 1.1136; its final real-valued set is or . Those final rounded endpoints admit some means that do not reject: for example, 1.11 is inside the non-rejection interval. Preserve the exact expressions for classification. The additional positive restriction reflects the mass context; intersect with if positive reference means are required. The teacher note also calls by and by ; these are alternate labels for the same roles, not different statistics.
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The unknown μ₀ appears inside an absolute value. Solve both inequalities and keep full-precision endpoints; rounding can change membership of the set.
Solution notes
Teacher-completed estimates, model, p-value decision and both inverse inequalities integrated. Distinct yellow teacher notation note appears in the relevant inverse-test step. Source two-tail rejection sketch reconstructed independently. No printed marks.