TABLE 9-1
Microsoft Excel was used on a set of data involving the number of defective items found in a random sample of 46 cases of light bulbs produced during a morning shift at a plant.A manager wants to know if the mean number of defective bulbs per case is greater than 20 during the morning shift.She will make her decision using a test with a level of significance of 0.10.The following information was extracted from the Microsoft Excel output for the sample of 46 cases:
-True or False: Referring to Table 9-1,the null hypothesis would be rejected if a 5% probability of committing a Type I error is allowed.

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TABLE 9-1
Microsoft Excel was used on a set of data involving the number of defective items found in a random sample of 46 cases of light bulbs produced during a morning shift at a plant.A manager wants to know if the mean number of defective bulbs per case is greater than 20 during the morning shift.She will make her decision using a test with a level of significance of 0.10.The following information was extracted from the Microsoft Excel output for the sample of 46 cases: 
-True or False: Referring to Table 9-1,the null hypothesis would be rejected if a 5% probability of committing a Type I error is allowed.

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The null hypothesis would be rejected if the p-value is less than the significance level (alpha). In this case, the significance level is 0.05, and the p-value is 0.04. Therefore, the null hypothesis would be rejected.

TABLE 9-1 Microsoft Excel Was Used on a Set of Data Involving