According to a dietary study, high sodium intake may be related to ulcers, stomach cancer and migraine headaches. The human requirement for salt is only 220 mg/day which is surpassed most single servings of ready-to-eat cereals. If a random sample of 20 similar servings of a certain cereal has a mean sodium content of 238 mg and a standard deviation of 24.6 mg, does this suggest at the 0.01 level of significance that the average sodium content for a single serving of such cereal is lesser than 220 mg? Assume the distribution of sodium content to be normal. Type in Canvas the computed testing. CS Seanned with CamScanner'

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According to a dietary study, high sodium intake may be related to ulcers, stomach cancer and migraine headaches. The human requirement for salt is only 220
mg/day which is surpassed most single servings of ready-to-eat cereals. If a random sample of 20 similar servings of a certain cereal has a mean sodium content of
238 mg and a standard deviation of 24.6 mg, does this suggest at the 0.01 level of significance that the average sodium content for a single serving of such cereal is
lesser than 220 mg? Assume the distribution of sodium content to be normal.
Type in Canvas the computed testing.
CS Scanned with CamScanner
Transcribed Image Text:According to a dietary study, high sodium intake may be related to ulcers, stomach cancer and migraine headaches. The human requirement for salt is only 220 mg/day which is surpassed most single servings of ready-to-eat cereals. If a random sample of 20 similar servings of a certain cereal has a mean sodium content of 238 mg and a standard deviation of 24.6 mg, does this suggest at the 0.01 level of significance that the average sodium content for a single serving of such cereal is lesser than 220 mg? Assume the distribution of sodium content to be normal. Type in Canvas the computed testing. CS Scanned with CamScanner
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