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Assess Alice’s claim about mean mass

Suppose the mass of a man in Singapore is assumed to be normally distributed with mean 75 kg and variance 80 kg280\ \mathrm{kg}^2. 100 men are randomly selected from the population and their sample mean mass is 77.2 kg. Alice claims that the population mean mass is actually more than 75 kg. Conduct a hypothesis test at the 5% level of significance.

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Define the population mean and choose the alternative from the wording before calculating.

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