Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Imagine you are a product manager at Chips Amor Cookie Company and you want to test how accurate the claim is that your cookies have more chocolate chips than the those produced by a local grocery store brand.

To do this, you gather a team of consumers to compare the cookies. You give each participant a Chips Amor cookie in a bag labeled A and a local grocery store brand cookie in a bag labeled B. They are asked to count the number of chocolate chips in the Chips Amor cookie and to count the number of chocolate chips in the local grocery store brand. You have 30 participants.

• What parameters would they be comparing?
• How can you write a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis?
• What are the populations from which the samples came?
• Based on your hypothesis, is this a one-tailed or two-tailed test?

Write a null hypothesis and a research hypothesis:

• So, are the samples of cookies random?
• Are the two samples independent of each other?

(Although we might not meet all assumptions, we will continue for the sake of illustration.)

Below is the data for the # of Chips in each cookie observed:

   Observer #

Cookie A

Cookie B

   1

25

23

   2

23

24

   3

26

20

   4

22

20

   5

25

23

   6

24

23

   7

18

22

   8

28

23

   9

23

23

   10

21

22

   11

22

20

   12

23

20

   13

24

20

   14

23

22

   15

24

21

   16

23

21

   17

22

21

   18

22

23

   19

24

22

   20

25

23

   21

24

23

   22

24

20

   23

23

21

   24

22

21

   25

20

20

   26

24

20

   27

25

21

   28

23

22

   29

24

20

   30

24

21

Create a histogram to see if your distribution is normal. Identify the p-value, the value of the test statistic (t-test).

Share your results and your responses to the following:

• Explain what this data would mean to you as a product manager with Chips Amor.
• What other types of real-world conclusions could you make from this research?
• In what other situations do you think this type of data might be useful?
• Where have you seen this type of data/experiment used?

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