TABLE 9-3 An Appliance Manufacturer Claims to Have Developed a Compact Microwave

Multiple Choice

TABLE 9-3
An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes a mean of no more than 250 W. From previous studies, it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 15 W. A consumer group has decided to try to discover if the claim appears true. They take a sample of 20 microwave ovens and find that they consume a mean of 257.3 W.
-Referring to Table 9-3, the parameter of interest is

A) the mean power consumption of the 20 microwave ovens.
B) the mean power consumption of all such microwave ovens.
C) 250.
D) 257.3.