The Employment and the Training Administration reported that the U.S. mean unemployment insurance benefit was $238 per week. A researcher in the state of Virginia anticipated that sample data would demonstrate the evidence that the mean weekly unemployment insurance benefit in Virginia was below the national average.
1. Expand the appropriate hypotheses such that the rejection of How will support the research's contention.
2. The sample mean weekly unemployment insurance benefit was $231 with a sample standard deviation of $80 for a sample of 100 individuals. What is the p value? Using an alpha level of .05, what is your conclusion?