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  • Mar 10, 2013, 07:57 PM
    mlh0031
    Statistics
    Sample of 105 workers for city of Euonymus Texas earns average of 24,375 per year. The average salary for all Euonymus workers is 24230 with a standard deviation of 523. Are the workers overpaid? Conduct both one- and two- tailed test
  • Mar 22, 2013, 12:16 PM
    justchill64
    Isn't this a two tailed
    Its either they are over paid or under
    One of the two

    and it would be x bar - mean/ std / samplesize
    or something like that
  • Mar 23, 2013, 05:16 AM
    mAsTeRiTy
    it would be a two tailed test if you were asked "overpaid or underpaid".in our case overpaid means one direction which is right-tailed since we are interested in knowing if paid more not less:

    n=105
    x bar=24,375
    mean=24,230
    std=523

    H0: M=24,230
    H1: M>24,230

    taking alfa=0.05 with right-tailed test,then critical value=1.65
    z=(x bar-mean)/(std/(n^0.5)=2.84>critical value
    decision:reject H0,i.e. there is enough evidence to support the claim that workers are overpaid.

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