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Two species of plant, A and B , are identical in appearance though it is known that the mean length of leaves from a plant of species A is 5.2 cm , whereas the mean length of leaves from a plant of species B is 4.6 cm . Both lengths can be modelled by normal distributions with standard deviation 1.2 cm .
In order to test whether a particular plant is from species A or species B, 16 leaves are collected at random from the plant. The length, x, of each leaf is measured and the mean length evaluated. A one-tailed test of the sample mean, Xˉ, is then performed at the 5 % level, with the hypotheses: H0:μ=5.2 and H1:μ<5.2.
It is now known that in the area in which the plant was found 90% of all the plants are of species A and 10% are of species B.