Coca-Cola states that the mean caffeine content per 12-ounce bottle is 35 milligrams. You want to test this claim. During your tests, you find that a random sample of 30 12-ounce bottles of Coke has a mean caffeine content of 36 milligrams. Assume the population is normally distributed and the population standard deviation is 7.8 milligrams. Can you reject the company's claim?
Hypothesis Statement and Statistic:
Sample mean: 36 milligrams
Null hypothesis: μ = 35
Alternative hypothesis: μ ≠ 35
Significance level: α = 0.05
Critical value: Z = ±1.96 (for a two-tailed test)
Standard deviation: σ = 7.8
Conclusion:
We fail to reject the null hypothesis. There is not enough evidence to support rejecting the claim that the mean caffeine content per 12-ounce bottle is 35 milligrams.
Possible Error Types:
Confidence Interval:
95% Confidence Interval: (33.601, 35.593) milligrams
Explanation: The confidence interval supports the results of our hypothesis test, as it includes the claimed mean caffeine content of 35 milligrams.