Discussion:
Q: Wall Street securities firms paid out record year-end bonuses of $125,500 per employee for 2005 (Fortune, February 6, 2006). Suppose we would like to take a sample of employees at the Jones & Ryan securities firm to see whether the mean year-end bonus is different from the reported mean of $125,500 for the population.
A. State the null and alternative hypotheses you would use to test whether the year-end bonus is different from the reported mean of $125,500 for the population.
B. Suppose the sample of 40 Jones & Ryan employees showed a sample mean year-end bonus of $118,000. Assume a population standard deviation of $30,000 and compute the p-value
C. With .05 as the level of significance, what is your conclusion?
D. Repeat the preceding hypothesis test using the critical value approach.