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Let x be a random variable that represents red blood cell count (RBC) in million

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Question

Let x be a random variable that represents red blood cell count (RBC) in millions of cells per cubic millimeter of whole blood. Then xhas a distribution that is approximately normal. For the population of healthy female adults, suppose the mean of the x distribution is about 4.80. Suppose that a female patient has taken six laboratory blood tests over the past several months and that the RBC count data sent to the patient's doctor are as follows.

(i) Use a calculator with sample mean and standard deviation keys to find x and s. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)


(ii) Do the given data indicate that the population mean RBC count for this patient is lower than 4.80? Use = 0.01.

(a) What is the level of significance?
  

State the null and alternate hypotheses.

H0: = 4.8; H1: > 4.8H0: = 4.8; H1: < 4.8    H0: < 4.8; H1: = 4.8H0: > 4.8; H1: = 4.8H0: = 4.8; H1: 4.8


(b) What sampling distribution will you use? Explain the rationale for your choice of sampling distribution.

The Student's t, since we assume that x has a normal distribution and is unknown.The Student's t, since we assume that x has a normal distribution and is known.    The standard normal, since we assume that x has a normal distribution and is unknown.The standard normal, since we assume that x has a normal distribution and is known.


What is the value of the sample test statistic? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
  

(c) Find the P-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

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Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Summary statistics:

Hypothesis test results:

Hence,

a) Level of significance = 0.01

Hypotheses: H0: = 4.8; H1: < 4.8

b) The Student's t, since we assume that x has a normal distribution and is unknown.

Sample test statistic = -3.464

c) P - value = 0.0090

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