A chemical plant tests whether a new catalyst raises the mean yield per batch. Yields are normally distributed and the population standard deviation is known: σ=20 kg.
The test is
H0:μ=60againstHa:μ>60
run at α=0.05 on a random sample of n=25 batches. The one-sided critical value is z∗=1.645.
Now suppose the catalyst genuinely works, and the true mean yield is μ=70 kg.
Standard normal CDF values Φ(z)=P(Z≤z), for reference — most of these rows are not needed:
| z | Φ(z) |
|---|
| 0.50 | 0.6915 |
| 0.54 | 0.7054 |
| 0.60 | 0.7257 |
| 0.70 | 0.7580 |
| 0.80 | 0.7881 |
| 0.855 | 0.8037 |
| 0.90 | 0.8159 |
| 1.00 | 0.8413 |
| 1.145 | 0.8739 |
| 1.20 | 0.8849 |
| 1.645 | 0.9500 |
| 2.00 | 0.9773 |
| 2.50 | 0.9938 |
What is the power of this test against μ=70 kg? Give the power as a decimal (not a percentage), rounded to 3 decimal places.