A manufacturer of hard safety hats for construction workers is concerned about the mean and the variation of the forces its helmets transmits to wearers when subjected to an external force. The manufacturer has designed the helmets so that the mean force transmitted by the helmets to the workers is 800 pounds (or less) to be less than 40 pounds. Tests were run on a random sample of n- 40 helmets, and the sample mean and sample standard deviation were found to be 825 pounds and 48.5 pounds, respectively. Do the data provide sufficient evidence, at the a- 0.05 level, to conclude that the population standard deviation exceeds 40 pounds? What is the test statistic?

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A manufacturer of hard safety hats for construction workers is concerned about the mean and the variation of the forces its helmets transmits to wearers when subjected to an external force. The manufacturer has designed the helmets so that the mean force transmitted by the helmets to the workers is 800 pounds (or less) with a standard deviation
to be less than 40 pounds. Tests were run on a random sample of n = 40 helmets, and the sample mean and sample standard deviation were found to be 825 pounds and 48.5 pounds, respectively.
Do the data provide sufficient evidence, at the a = 0.05 level, to conclude that the population standard deviation exceeds 40 pounds?
What is the test statistic?
Transcribed Image Text:A manufacturer of hard safety hats for construction workers is concerned about the mean and the variation of the forces its helmets transmits to wearers when subjected to an external force. The manufacturer has designed the helmets so that the mean force transmitted by the helmets to the workers is 800 pounds (or less) with a standard deviation to be less than 40 pounds. Tests were run on a random sample of n = 40 helmets, and the sample mean and sample standard deviation were found to be 825 pounds and 48.5 pounds, respectively. Do the data provide sufficient evidence, at the a = 0.05 level, to conclude that the population standard deviation exceeds 40 pounds? What is the test statistic?
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