document.write( "Question 129644: Faced with rising fax costs, a firm issued a guideline that transmissions of 10 pages or more
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Faced with rising fax costs, a firm issued a guideline that transmissions of 10 pages or more
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\n" ); document.write( "Ho: mu = 10
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\n" ); document.write( "t(14.44) = (14.44-10)/[4.45/sqrt(35)] = 4.44*sqrt(35)/4.45 = 5.9027...
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\n" ); document.write( "p-value = P(5.9027\n" ); document.write( "-------------------------
\n" ); document.write( "Since the p-value is far less than alpha=1%, hasten to reject
\n" ); document.write( "Ho. The test gives strong statistical evidence that the mean
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\n" ); document.write( "You might conclude that the mean is greater than 10 since that
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