TABLE 9-3
An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a compact microwave oven that consumes an average of no more than 250 W. From previous studies, it is believed that power consumption for microwave ovens is normally distributed with a 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 an average of 257.3 W.
-Referring to Table 9-3, the population of interest is
A) the mean power consumption in the 20 microwave ovens.
B) the power consumption in the 20 microwave ovens.
C) the mean power consumption in all such microwave ovens.
D) the power consumption in all such microwave ovens.

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The population of interest is the power consumption in all such microwave ovens, as the consumer group is trying to determine if the manufacturer's claim about the average power consumption is true for the entire population of these microwave ovens.

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