A company claims that its new diet pill reduces the weight by more than 5 pounds on average in a week. A sample of 30 people are tested and the mean weight loss is found to be 5.3 pounds with a standard deviation of 1.2 pounds. Using a significance level of 0.05, is there sufficient evidence to support the company's claim? The null hypothesis is that the mean weight loss is 5 pounds.
Step 4: Compare the calculated t-value with the critical t-value (the t-value corresponding to a significance level of 0.05 with 29 degrees of freedom) to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.
Step 1 :Step 1: State the null hypothesis (
Step 2 :Step 2: Determine the test statistic. We use the formula for a one-sample t-test:
Step 3 :Step 3: Calculate the t-value using the above formula.
Step 4 :Step 4: Compare the calculated t-value with the critical t-value (the t-value corresponding to a significance level of 0.05 with 29 degrees of freedom) to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.