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Toaster Oven An appliance manufacturer claims to have developed a new toaster oven that consumes an average of no more than 250 W. From previous studies, it is believed that power consumption for toaster ovens is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 18 W. A consumer group suspects the actual average is more than 250 W. They take a sample of 20 toaster ovens and calculate the average consumption to be 260 W. {Toaster Oven Narrative} State the appropriate hypotheses for the consumer group to do their test.


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