Lumber Company-- Very Urgent Please Help!!!!

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Lumber Company-- Very Urgent Please Help!!!!
Message posted by Mariah (via 63.27.48.90) on November 24, 2001 at 10:37 PM (ET)

A lumber company cuts 2x4's for home construction. The length of each is supposed to be 8.0 ft. 11 samples were measured: 8.1, 8.5, 8.1, 7.7, 8.0, 7.8, 8.2, 8.5, 8.0, 8.1, 7.8 Test the lumber to determine if it is significantly different than 8.0 ft. using the classical approach and the p-value approach. Expain the results of the 2 methids.
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Re: Lumber Company-- Very Urgent Please Help!!!!
Message posted by bd (via 172.145.125.81) on November 25, 2001 at 1:18 AM (ET)

a one sample t-test yields:

t(10) = .377, p > .05 (p = .38), there are no significant differences between teh obtained measurements and the hypothesized length of 8'.

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