John purchased a used total station. After receiving the ins…
John purchased a used total station. After receiving the instrument, he went out to the nearest calibration baseline to make sure his instrument was working properly. The length of the calibrated baseline is 336.972m. John set up his total station on one end of the calibration baseline and a prism on the other. Using his EDM, he observed 6 distances. The average distance observed was 336.977m with a standard deviation of ±0.003m. John then performs a statistical test to determine whether the observed mean length is longer than the calibrated length at a 1% level of significance. Find the following quantities for the test: a) The test statistic: [t] b) The critical lookup value: [lookup]
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