Q:

In your stor 155 class, the professor returns midterm 2 and claims that the average score was 83 out of 100 with a standard deviation of 8 points. when the professor steps out of the room, you quickly select a simple random sample of students (all students are present that day) and note their scores: 68, 75, 88, 79, 78, 79, 65, 77, 85, 71a.you strongly suspect that the professor is overstating the average so that students will blame themselves if they have a low midterm score. state the null and alternative hypotheses for the appropriate test of significance at α=0.05.

Accepted Solution

A:
The null hypothesis is that the mean is 83 out of 100.  The alternative hypothesis is that the mean is less than 83.