TABLE 9-6
The quality control engineer for a furniture manufacturer is interested in the mean amount of force necessary to produce cracks in stressed oak furniture.She performs a two-tail test of the null hypothesis that the mean for the stressed oak furniture is 650.The calculated value of the Z test statistic is a positive number that leads to a p-value of 0.080 for the test.
-True or False: Referring to Table 9-6,if the test is performed with a level of significance of 0.10,the null hypothesis would be rejected.

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The p-value is greater than the level of significance of 0.10, so we fail to reject the null hypothesis. However, if the level of significance was increased to 0.080, then we would reject the null hypothesis.

TABLE 9-6 The Quality Control Engineer for a Furniture Manufacturer Is Interested