Step 1- defining the variable

Test variable- freq of exercise in a week (ordinal scale)

Benchmark – 4

Step 2- setting null and alt hypothesis

H0 – exercise done in a week is not significantly higher than the benchmark

H1- – exercise done in a week is significantly higher than the benchmark

Step 3 - determining the appropriate stats test

Since only one variable is studied in consideration to thae benchmark ,

There fore we will use one sample t test .

Step 4- we have assumed the level of significance to be 5%

α = .05

Therefore, confidence level becomes 95%

Step 5: Set the decision rule using ‘p’ value.

If P<= α, then accept H1, otherwise accept Ho

Step 6: Calculations and Reports generated through SPSS

One-Sample Statistics

N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

what is your frequency of

10 2.70 1.160 .367
exercise in a week?

One-Sample Test

Test Value = 4

t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean 95% Confidence Interval of the

Difference Difference

Lower Upper

what is your frequency of

-3.545 9 .006 -1.300 -2.13 -.47
exercise in a week?
Step 7- conclusive findings
From 1st table,
2.70<4
We find that the freq of exercise is less than the benchmark

From table 2,

Pvalue is 0.006<0.05, accept H1

Therefore we conclude that the exercise done in a week is significantly higher than the benchmark