Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 4

For all Hypothesis tests, please provide the following information:
(i) What is the level of significance State the null and alternate hypotheses.
(ii) Check Requirements What sampling distribution will you use What assumptions are you making What is the value of the sample test statistic
(iii) Find (or estimate) the P -value. Sketch the sampling distribution and show the area corresponding to the P -value.
(iv) Based on your answers in parts (i)-(iii), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis Are the data statistically significant at level
(v) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.
Testing Variances: Iris Random samples of two species of iris gave the following petal length (in cm) (Reference: R. A. Fisher, Annals of Eugenics , Vol. 7):

Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that the population standard deviation of x 1 larger than 0.55.