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document.write( "The breaking strengths of cables produced by a certain company are approximately normally distributed. The company announced that the mean breaking strength is 2130  pounds. with a standard deviation of 183.5  . A consumer protection agency claims that the actual standard deviation is higher. Suppose that the consumer agency wants to carry out a hypothesis test to see if its claim can be supported. State the null hypothesis Ho  and the alternative hypothesis H1  they would use for this test.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Ho: u = 2130 (to be tested)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "H1: u > 2130 (the claim)<BR>\n" );
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