QUESTION 4 In an effort to reduce energy costs, a major university has installed more efficient lights as well as automatic sensors that turn the lights off when no movement is present in a room. Historically, the cost of lighting an average classroom for 1 week has been $265. To determine whether the changes have signficantly reduced costs, the university takes a sample of 50 classrooms. They find that the average cost for 1 week is $247 with a standard deviation of $60. When testing the hypothesis (at the 5% level of significance) that the average energy use has decreased from the past, what is your conclusion concerning the null hypothesis?     Reject the null hypothesis     Fail to reject the null hypothesis

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In an effort to reduce energy costs, a major university has installed more efficient lights as well as automatic sensors that turn the lights off when no movement is present in a room. Historically, the cost of lighting an average classroom for 1 week has been $265. To determine whether the changes have signficantly reduced costs, the university takes a sample of 50 classrooms. They find that the average cost for 1 week is $247 with a standard deviation of $60. When testing the hypothesis (at the 5% level of significance) that the average energy use has decreased from the past, what is your conclusion concerning the null hypothesis?

   

Reject the null hypothesis

   

Fail to reject the null hypothesis

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