Test Hypotheses About a Population Mean with Unknown
-A Local $\alpha = 0.01$

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Test Hypotheses about a Population Mean with Unknown
-A local group claims that the police issue at least 60 parking tickets a day in their area. To prove their point, they randomly select two weeks. Their research yields the number of tickets issued for each day. The data are listed below. At $\alpha = 0.01$ , test the group's claim.
$$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l } 70 & 48 & 41 & 68 & 69 & 55 & 70 & 57 & 60 & 83 \\32 & 60 & 72 & 58 & & & & & &\end{array}$$

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