A lathe is set to cut bars of steel into lengths of 6 centimeters. The lathe is considered to be in perfect adjustment if the average length of the bars it cuts is 6 centimeters. A sample of 121 bars is selected randomly and measured. It is determined that the average length of the bars in the sample is 6.08 centimeters with a standard deviation of 0.44 centimeters

a. Formulate the hypotheses to determine whether or not the lathe is in perfect adjustment.
b. Compute the test statistic.
c. Using the p-value approach, what is your conclusion? Let ? = .05.


a. H0: ? = 6
Ha: ? ? 6
b. t = 2
c. p-value (.0456) is between 0.02 and 0.05; therefore, reject H 0

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