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Calories in school lunches. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National School Lun...

Calories in school lunches. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program mandates that for a high school to receive reimbursement for school lunches, the number of calories served at lunch must be no more than 850 calories. Suppose a nutritionist believes that the true mean number of calories served at lunch at all U.S. high schools exceeds 850 calories.

a. Identify the parameter of interest.

b. Specify the null and alternative hypotheses for testing this claim.

c. Describe a Type I error in the words of the problem.

d. Describe a Type II error in the words of the problem.

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