According to a news program, Americans take an average of 4.9 days off per because of illness. The manager of a large chain of grocery stores wants to ki the employees at the grocery store, on average, take fewer days off than the national average. The manager selects a random sample of 80 employees in the company and the sample mean number of days off for the 80 employees was 4.75 days wi standard deviation of 0.9 days. When the manager performed a significance test, the P-value was 0.07.

The College Board provided comparisons of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores based on the highest level of education attained by the test taker's parents. A research hypothesis was that students whose parents had attained a higher level of education would on average score higher on the SAT. The overall mean SAT math score was 514. SAT math scores for independent samples of students follow. The first sample shows the SAT math test scores for students whose parents are college graduates with a bachelor's degree. The second sample shows the SAT math test scores for students whose parents are high school graduates but do not have a college degree. College Grads 485 487 518 517 650 542 570 426 566 499 588 562 497 448 592 453   High School Grads 442 492 580 478 479 425 486 485 528 390 524 535 (b) What is the point estimate of the difference between the means for the two populations?   (c) Find the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer…

York Manufacturing Inc. offers dental insurance to its employees. A recent study by the human resource director shows the annual cost per employee per year followed the normal distribution, with a mean of 1234 dollars and a standard deviation of 321 dollars. What was the minimum cost for the 8 percent of employees that incurred the highest dental expense?

A nationwide job recruiting firm wants to compare the annual incomes for childcare workers in Utah and Oregon. Due to recent trends in the childcare industry, the firm suspects that the mean annual income of childcare workers in Utah is less than the mean annual income of childcare workers in Oregon. To see if this is true, the firm selected a random sample of 20 childcare workers from Utah and an independent random sample of 20 childcare workers from Oregon and asked them to report their mean annual income. The data obtained were as follows. Annual income in dollars 27060 , 42320 , 36445 , 37895, 44564 , 35325 , 30313 , 28698, 33706 , 48365 , 26946 , 25063 , 28339 , 29265 , 40051 , 37026 , 40150 , 42753 , 27820, 39471 Utah 29769 , 48859 , 32480 , 36288,45102 , 46219 ,51098 , 45516 , 38834 , 44659 , 40755 , 38006 , 39947 , 29801 , 32200, 38731 , 41370 , 28059 , 33753 , 35271 Oregon Send data to calc... v Send data to Excel The population standard deviation for the annual incomes of…