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Answer:
a) Null hypothesis (H0): the mean guest bill for a weekend is $600.
Alternative hypothesis (Ha): the mean guest bill for a weekend is significantly bigger than $600.
b) When H0 can not be rejected, the conclusion is that there is no enough evidence to claim that the mean guest bill had increased from $600.
c) When the H0 is rejected, they have enough evidence to claim that the mean guest bill is significantly bigger than $600.
Step-by-step explanation:
a) The accountant, as he wants to see if there is evidence to support the claim that the mean guest bill has increased significanty, should write the hypothesis like that:
Null hypothesis (H0): the mean guest bill for a weekend is $600.
Alternative hypothesis (Ha): the mean guest bill for a weekend is significantly bigger than $600.
A sample of bills of the period in study needs to be taken in order to have a representation of the actual population of bills and then perform a t-test, as the sample mean and standard deviation will be used to perform the test.
b) When H0 can not be rejected, the conclusion is that there is no enough evidence to claim that the mean guest bill had increased from $600. If the P-value was low but not enough, they may take another sample to perform the test again or leave it like that.
c) When the H0 is rejected, they have enough evidence to claim that the mean guest bill is significantly bigger than $600.