Betty, an employee of Shining Sun Daycare Center read an article in Healthy Child Magazine saying that the average 3-year-old child is 37 in. tall. Betty works with 10 3-year-olds at Shining Sun, so later that week, she measured the height of

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Betty, an employee of Shining Sun Daycare Center
read an article in Healthy Child Magazine saying
that the average 3-year-old child is 37 in. tall.
Betty works with 10 3-year-olds at Shining Sun,
so later that week, she measured the height of
each child who had just turned or was about to
turn 3 years old. Here are the descriptive statistics
for the sample: M = 35, s = 3.
1. State the nondirectional hypothesis.
2. Determine the critical t for a = .05.
3. Calculate t. Show your calculations.
4. Is the height of 3-year-olds in Shining Sun
Daycare Center significantly different from
the height given in the magazine?

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