Danielle

Autumn

Chapter 9 Report:
For our group project we used a sample population of senior boys from
Fowler High School to see how long on average they spent on Facebook.
After finding out how much time they all spent on Facebook we were able to
plug the information in our calculators table to get a sample mean of 12.73
minutes and a sample standard deviation of 11.95 minutes. On average
Facebook users are on Facebook for a population mean of 20 plus minutes
per day. What the overall Facebook average tells us about the senior boys is
that they use Facebook significantly less than the average Facebook user
making our information left tailed.
After gathering all of our data points, which are listed above, we
calculated the sample mean and the sample standard deviation. The sample
mean was 12.73 (x) and the sample standard deviation is 11.95 (s). We found
this by plugging all of our data points into the L , then calculating the values
using 1-variable statistics on our calculators. After this we used the x for the
sample mean and the s for the sample standard deviation.
Our null hypothesis was =20. Our alternate hypothesis is <20. We
determined that the alternate hypothesis would be less than 20 minutes
because our sample mean was less than the population mean of 20 minutes.
Since the alternate hypothesis is a less than equation we also know that our
data will be a left tailed statistical test.
As we began to do calculations, we decided to use a .05 level of
significance. This number will tell us how much error we are willing to
consider, this means that this number will essentially tell us if we reject or
fail to reject our null hypothesis. Once we figured out our level of
significance we had to determine whether or not to use the z-score table or
Students T distribution table. We knew we had to use the T distribution table,
simply because the population standard deviation is not known.
Our overall sample size (n) was 25 boys in the senior class. To find the
degrees of freedom (d.f) we used the equation d.f.= n-1(d.f= 25-1) which tells
us our degrees of freedom would be 24, and we would use line 24 in
Students T-Chart, rather than line 25. We then proceeded to plug our
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information into the equation:

information plugged in:

t=

t=

x
s / n

, so it would like this with the

12.7320
11.95 / 25

This equation gave us a Sample test statistic of -3.04 or 3.04. After getting
this answer we were able to go to table four in our book and find the P-value,
which was .0005 < P < .005. We found this by find row 24 then finding the
two numbers that 3.04 would fall between. This ended up being between
2.797 and 3.745. Once we found these values we dragged up our fingers to
the one tail area and found that these values in fact lie between .0005 and .
005.
We then concluded that we rejected the null hypothesis because the
whole p-value is lower than the level of significance so our data is to low for
us to be confident that the Null Hypothesis is correct. What this tells us about
our data is that the average time of male student in the senior class spends on
Facebook does not support Business Insider's information. The male seniors
dont spend 20 minutes on Facebook like the average Facebook. Instead
Fowlers senior boys only use Facebook for around 13 minutes on average
per day.