A meat department of a local supermarket chain is packaging ground beef in trays of two sizes. The smaller tray is intended to hold 1 pound of meat. A random sample of 35 packages in the smaller meat tray produced weight measurements with an average of 1.01 pounds and a standard deviation of 0.18 pounds.
If you were the quality control manager and wanted to make sure that the average amount of ground beef was indeed 1 pound, what hypotheses would you test ?
Find the p-value for the test and use it to perform the test in part a
How would you, as the quality control manager, report the results of your study to a consumer interest group?