Replacement of paint on highways and streets represents a large investment of funds by state and local governments each year. A new, cheaper brand of paint is tested for durability after one month’s time by reflectometer readings. For the new brand to be acceptable, it must have a mean reflectometer reading greater than 19.6. The sample data, based on 35 randomly selected readings, show x=19.8 and s=1.5. Do the sample data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that the new brand is acceptable? Conduct hypothesis test using a=.05. Use the traditional approach and the p-value approach to hypothesis testing! Show all of the steps of the hypothesis test for each approach.

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Replacement of paint on highways and streets represents a large investment of funds by state and local governments each year. A new, cheaper brand of paint is tested for durability after one month’s time by reflectometer readings. For the new brand to be acceptable, it must have a mean reflectometer reading greater than 19.6. The sample data, based on 35 randomly selected readings, show x=19.8 and s=1.5. Do the sample data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that the new brand is acceptable? Conduct hypothesis test using a=.05. Use the traditional approach and the p-value approach to hypothesis testing!  Show all of the steps of the hypothesis test for each approach.

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Step 1  According to the provided data, the sample mean is 19.8 and the sample standard deviation is 1.5 and the sample size is 35.  The null and alternative hypotheses are,  H0:μ=19.6  Ha:μ&amp;gt;19.6  This corresponds to a right tailed test.  Step 2  The level of significance is 0.05 and the critical value is obtained as 1.691 for degrees of freedom, df=34(n–1) using the t-distribution table.  Therefore, the rejection region is t &amp;gt; 1.691.  The t-statistic can be obtained as:  t=x―−μ0s/n=19.8−19.61.5/35=0.789  Step 3  Decision: Since, it is observed that t=0.789&amp;lt;t−critical value =1.691, therefore, the null hypothesis is failed to be rejected.  Using the p-value approach: The p-value is p=0.2178 using the standard normal table. Since the p−value=0.2178 is greater than the level of significance = 0.05. The null hypothesis is failed to be rejected.  Therefore, it can be concluded that there is not enough evidence to claim that the mean reflectometer reading greater than 19.6.

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