Macarthurs, a manufacturer of ropes used in abseiling, wished to determine if the production of their ropes was performing according to their specifications. All ropes being manufactured were required to have an average breaking strength of 228.5 kilograms and a standard deviation of 27.3 kilograms. They planned to test the breaking strength of their ropes using a random sample of forty ropes and were prepared to accept a Type I error probability of 0.01. a. State the direction of the alternative hypothesis for the test. Type gt (greater than), ge (greater than or equal to), lt (less than), le (less than or equal to) or ne (not equal to) as appropriate in the box.
b. State, in absolute terms, the critical value as found in the tables in the textbook.
c. Determine the lower boundary of the region of non-rejection in terms of the sample mean used in testing the claim (to two decimal places).
d. Determine the upper boundary of the region of non-rejection in terms of the sample mean used in testing the claim (to two decimal places).
e. If the average breaking strength found from the sample is 234.9 kilograms, is the null hypothesis rejected for this test?
f. Disregarding your answer for 5, if the null hypothesis was rejected, would it appear that the new fibre has affected the breaking strength of the rope at the 5% level of significance?