Activity 11

A cigarette manufacturer claims that the average nicotine content of their cigarette does not exceed 3.4
mg. A random sample of 10 cigarettes was taken and found out to have average nicotine content of 4.5
mg with standard deviation of 1.5 mg. Are you going to accept the manufacturer's claim at 0.01 level of
significance?

The null hypothesis (HO) is that the average nicotine content is 3.4 mg, and the alternative hypothesis
(Ha) is that the average nicotine content exceeds 3.4 mg.

Given:
Sample Mean = 4.5 mg
Population Mean = 3.4 mg
Sample Standard Deviation = 1.5 mg
Sample Size = 10
Level of Significance = 0.01

4.5−3.4
𝑡 − 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 = 1.5 𝑡 − 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 = 2.32
√10

Degrees of Freedom
𝐷𝑓 = 𝑁 − 2
𝐷𝑓 = 10 − 2
𝐷𝑓 = 8 𝑡 − 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 = 2.896

𝑡 − 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 > 𝑡 − 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the average nicotine
content exceeds 3.4 mg.

𝑡 − 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 ≤ 𝑡 − 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 accept the null hypothesis, meaning we don’t have enough evidence to
say that the average nicotine content exceeds 3.4 mg

Ans:

2.32 ≤ 2.896 accept the null hypothesis, meaning we don’t have enough evidence to say that the
average nicotine content exceeds 3.4 mg.

Null Hypothesis (Ho)

µ ≤ 3.4 𝑚𝑔

Alternative Hypothesis (Ha)

µ > 3.4 𝑚𝑔

Level of Significance
0.01

Test Statistics
𝑡 − 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡 (𝑂𝑛𝑒 − 𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛)
Degree of Freedom
𝐷𝑓 = 8

Classification
𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 (𝑂𝑛𝑒 − 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡)

Critical/Tabular Value
2.896

Decision Rule: Reject Ho if the computed value is _____. Otherwise do not reject Ho.
𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒

Compute for the Computed Value

𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 = 2.32

Decision
𝐹𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡; 0.01