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JNU SSS 2020 Question 47: Hypothesis testing

During the Covid pandemic we observed the fall in the salary of 10 males of a given locality are found to be 70, 50, 62, 68, 61, 68, 70, 33, 64, 40 in thousands. Is it reasonable to believe that the average salary is greater than 64 in thousand ? To test at 5% significance level to make the decision or conclusion about the hypothesis we will use the following :

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This question is on The hypothesis testing framework, part of Hypothesis testing in Statistics.

The steps of a test: null and alternative, test statistic, rejection region.

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