Question

John wishes to study the heights of the women’s basketball team. He completes a simple random sample of women’s basketball team members. The results are listed below:

70  71  69.25  68.5  69  70  71  70  70  69.5  74  75.5

John knows that women’s heights are normally distributed. Use the critical value method and a 5% significance level to test the claim that women’s basketball players have heights with a mean greater than 68.6 inches (population mean height of men).

What population parameter is being tested?

Group of answer choices

Standard Deviation or Variance

Goodness-of-Fit or Independence or Homogeneity

Proportion

Linear Correlation Coefficient

Mean

Answer 1

Solution:

Claim to be tested is "  that women’s basketball players have heights with a mean greater than 68.6 inches "

i.e. , here we are testing the claim about the mean (population mean)

So , answer is

Mean