Suppose a study was done to determine if the average amount of sleep that students get the day before an exam is less than 6 hours.An SRS of 100 students from a university was taken and a mean of 5.5 hours was computed from the sample.The figure below provides the results of the analysis. Based on the results,the null hypothesis would ______ at the .05 significance level.

A) be rejected
B) not be rejected

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect exists between certain states or parameters in a population.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.

SRS

An acronym for Simple Random Sampling, a statistical method where each member of a population has an equal probability of being included in the sample.