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\n" ); document.write( "Faced with rising fax costs, a firm issued a guideline that transmissions of 10 pages or more should be sent by 2-day mail instead. Exceptions are allowed, but they want the average to be 10 or below. The firm examined 35 randomly chosen fax transmissions during the next year, yielding a sample mean of 14.44 with a standard deviation of 4.45 pages. (a) At the .01 level of significance,
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Faced with rising fax costs, a firm issued a guideline that transmissions of 10 pages or more should be sent by 2-day mail instead. Exceptions are allowed, but they want the average to be 10 or below. The firm examined 35 randomly chosen fax transmissions during the next year, yielding a sample mean of 14.44 with a standard deviation of 4.45 pages.
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\n" ); document.write( "Ho: u = 10
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\n" ); document.write( "t(14.44) = (14.44-10)/[4.45/sqrt(35)] = 5.9028
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\n" ); document.write( "b) find the right-tail p-value.
\n" ); document.write( "p-value = P(t > 5.9028 when df=34) = 0.000000576\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Since the p-value is less than 1%, reject Ho.
\n" ); document.write( "The test results do not support concluding that
\n" ); document.write( "u = 10\r
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