SCENARIO 9-12 A Drug Company Is Considering Marketing a New Local Anesthetic.The

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SCENARIO 9-12
A drug company is considering marketing a new local anesthetic.The effective time of the anesthetic the drug company is currently producing has a normal distribution with a mean of 7.4 minutes with a standard deviation of 1.2 minutes.The chemistry of the new anesthetic is such that the effective time should be normally distributed with the same standard deviation.The company will market the new local anesthetic as being better if there is evidence that the population mean effective time is greater than the 7.4 minutes of the current local anesthetic.
-Referring to Scenario 9-12,if you select a sample of 25 new local anesthetics and are willing to have a level of significance of 0.1,the confidence coefficient of the test is _____ if the population mean effective time is 8 minutes.

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Definitions:

Reverse Trendelenburg

A bed positioning technique where the head of the bed is raised and the foot of the bed is lowered to improve patient comfort or for medical reasons.

Hand Hygiene

The practice of washing or sanitizing the hands to remove dirt, germs, and harmful microorganisms to prevent disease.

ASA III

A classification in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' physical status classification system indicating a patient with severe systemic disease that is not incapacitating.

Physical Status Classification

A system used in medicine to assess and categorize a patient's overall health status and physical fitness, often before undergoing anesthesia or surgery.