The time married men with children spend on child care averages 6.4 hours per week (Time, March 12, 2012). You belong to a professional group on family practices that would like to do its own study to determine if the time married men in your area spend on child care per week differs from the reported mean of 6.4 hours per week. A sample of 40 married couples will be used with the data collected showing the hours per week the husband spends on child care. The sample data is contained in the Excel Online file below. Construct a spreadsheet to answer the following questions.

Complete question :

The time married men with children spend on child care averages 6.4 hours per week (Time, March 12, 2012). You belong to a professional group on family practices that would like to do its own study to determine if the time married men in your area spend on child care per week differs from the reported mean of 6.4 hours per week. A sample of 40 married couples are surveyed to collect the hours per week the husband spends on child care. The sample mean is 7.0 hours per week, and the sample standard deviation is 2.4276 hours per week. Use Excel to answer the following questions. a. What are the hypotheses if your group would like to determine if the population mean number of hours married men are spending in child care differs from the mean reported by Time in your area? b. What is the test statistics of the population mean? c. Using a .05 level of significance, what are the critical values? d. What is your conclusion?

H0 : μ = 6.4

H1 : μ ≠ 6.4

Test statistic = - 1.563

Critical value = ±2.023

Fail to reject the null ; there is no significant evidence to support the claim that mean number of hours spent differs

Step-by-step explanation:

H0 : μ = 6.4

H1 : μ ≠ 6.4

Test statistic, Z :

(Xbar - μ) / (s/√n)

(6.4 - 7) / (2.4276/√40)

-0.6 / 0.3838372

T= -1.563

α = 0.05 ; df = n - 1 = 40 - 1 = 39

Critical value(0.05, 39) = ±2.023

|T| > +Tcritical ; Reject the Null

Since |T| < +Tcritical ; then we fail to reject the Null, hence, we conclude that there is no significant evidence to support the claim that mean number of hours spent by married men in child care differs.