Mathematics Homework Help

Too much TV? A father is concerned that his teenage son is watching too much television each day, since his son watches an average of 2 hours per day. His son says that his TV habits are no different than those of his friends. Since this father has taken a stats class, he knows that he can actually test to see whether or not his son is watching more TV than his peers. The father collects a random sample of television watching times from boys at his son’s high school and gets the following data:

1.9 2.3 2.2 1.9 1.6 2.6 1.4 2.0 2.0 2.2

Is the father right? That is, is there evidence that other boys average less than 2 hours of television per day? Conduct a hypothesis test, making sure to state your conclusions in the context of the problem.

1) What is the test statistic for this casr?

2) What are the null and alternative hypothese?

3) What is the P-value for this problem?

4) Using the significance level of .05, what is your conclusion?