A bottled water distributor wants to determine whether the mean amount of water contained inâ 1-gallon bottles purchased from a nationally known water bottling company is actually 1 gallon. You know from the water bottling company specifications that the standard deviation of the amount of water is 0.008 gallon. You select a random sample of 50 bottles, and the mean amount of water perâ 1-gallon bottle is 0.995 gallon. Required:
a. Is there evidence that the mean amount is different from 1.0 gallon?
b. What is the test statistic?
c. Compute theâ p-value and interpret its meaning.
d. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean amount of water perâ 1-gallon bottle.