A cake shop recently receives complaints from several customers that her first-choice birthday cake, which is expected to weigh 1.2 lb, is underweight. The following data is the weight in lbs of 17 first-choice birthday cakes:
1.16 1.18 1.21 1.16 1.22 1.20 1.14 1.18 1.17 1.18 1.21 1.18 1.17 1.19 1.20 1.16 1.19
a) In constructing a confidence interval for the true average weight of the birthday cake, elaborate which distribution has to be used. What assumption(s) must be made initially?
b) Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the true average weight of the birthday cake. Keep the accuracy of your answer to one decimal place.
c) At 5% level of significance, is there enough evidence to infer that the birthday cake is underweight?
d) Use a p-value approach to test the corresponding hypothesis.