A biologist was interested in determining whether specific seedlings treated with a new fertilizer resulted in a higher than average height than the standard height of 11.2 cm. The biologist treated a random sample of 24 seedlings with the fertilizer and subsequently obtained the following heights.  Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test using a 5% significance level.  What is the null and alternative hypothesis? What is the value of the test stastic? Please show work.

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A biologist was interested in determining whether specific seedlings treated with a new fertilizer resulted in a higher than average height than the standard height of 11.2 cm. The biologist treated a random sample of 24 seedlings with the fertilizer and subsequently obtained the following heights.  Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test using a 5% significance level.  What is the null and alternative hypothesis? What is the value of the test stastic? Please show work.

 

11.5

11.8

15.7

12.1

10.1

10.5

16.5

13.5

14.4

16.7

10.9

10.0

11.1

17.1

13.3

12.4

8.5

14.3

12.9

11.1

15.0

13.3

9.9

13.5

 

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