Question

Salmon (Raw Data, Software Required):
Assume that the weights of Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River are normally distributed. You randomly catch and weigh 15 such salmon. The data is found in the table below. Test the claim that the mean weight of Columbia River salmon is greater than 26 pounds. Test this claim at the 0.10 significance level.

(a) What type of test is this? This is a left-tailed test.This is a two-tailed test.     This is a right-tailed test. (b) What is the test statistic? Round your answer to 2 decimal places. tx =    (c) Use software to get the P-value of the test statistic. Round to 4 decimal places. P-value =

DATA ( n = 15 ) Salmon Weights Pounds     26.2 25.3 36.5 27.1 19.4 23.0 33.7 26.3 24.0 27.3 33.0 28.2 29.3 28.8 32.0

Answer 1

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