Math Problem Statement
It is commonly believed that the mean body temperature of a healthy adult is . You are not entirely convinced. You believe that it is not . You collected data using 39 healthy people and found that they had a mean body temperature of with a standard deviation of . Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the mean body temperature of a healthy adult is not .d) Calculate your test statistic. (Round your final answer to two decimal places.
e) Calculate your p-value. (Round your final answer to four decimal places.
Solution
To answer this, let's denote the known parameters:
- Let represent the commonly believed mean body temperature of a healthy adult.
- Let represent the mean body temperature from your sample of 39 healthy individuals.
- Let be the standard deviation of the sample.
- The significance level is .
Part (d): Calculate the Test Statistic
For a hypothesis test regarding the mean when the population standard deviation is unknown, we use a t-test. The test statistic is calculated as follows:
where:
- = sample mean body temperature
- = hypothesized mean body temperature
- = sample standard deviation
- = sample size (39 in this case)
Part (e): Calculate the p-value
Since this is a two-tailed test, we need to find the probability that the test statistic is at least as extreme as the observed value (in both directions). This requires calculating the p-value based on the t-distribution with (i.e., 38) degrees of freedom.
If you provide the actual values for , , and , I can complete the calculations for you.
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Math Problem Analysis
Mathematical Concepts
Statistics
Hypothesis Testing
T-Distribution
Formulas
Test statistic for a t-test: t = (x̄ - μ₀) / (s / √n)
Theorems
Central Limit Theorem
Student's t-distribution
Suitable Grade Level
College level
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