7 A biologist wishes to test whether the mean concentration \(\mu\), in suitable units, of a certain pollutant in a river is below the permitted level of 0.5 . She measures the concentration, \(x\), of the pollutant at 50 randomly chosen locations in the river. The results are summarised below.
$$n = 50 \quad \Sigma x = 23.0 \quad \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 13.02$$
- Carry out a test at the \(5 \%\) significance level of the null hypothesis \(\mu = 0.5\) against the alternative hypothesis \(\mu < 0.5\).
Later, a similar test is carried out at the \(5 \%\) significance level using another sample of size 50 and the same hypotheses as before. You should assume that the standard deviation is unchanged. - Given that, in fact, the value of \(\mu\) is 0.4 , find the probability of a Type II error.
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