A student in wildlife management studied trout habitat in the upper Shavers Fork watershed in West Virginia. The springtime water pH of 29 randomly selected tributary sample sites were found to have the following values: 6.2 6.3 5.0 5.8 4.6 4.7 4.7 5.4 6.2 6.0 5.4 5.9 6.2 6.1 6.0 6.3 6.2 5.8 6.2 6.3 6.3 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.1 6.3 4.4 6.7
Do the data of Exercise 17.8 (above) give good reason to think that the springtime water the tributary water basin around the Shavers Fork watershed is not neutral. (A neutral pH is the pH of pure water, pH 7.)
Step 1:
STATE: Is there evidence that the springtime water pH of the Shavers Fork watershed is not neutral (pH 7)?
FORMULATE: State hypotheses to be tested.
A. H 0 : μ = 7 vs. Ha : μ > 7
B. H 0 : μ = 7 vs. Ha : μ < 7
C. H 0 : μ = 7 vs. Ha : μ ≠ 7
D. H 0 : μ ≠ 7 vs. Ha : μ < 7