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question 54

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The sales representative for a manufacturer of a new product claims that the product will increase output per machine by at least 29 units per hour.A line manager installs the product on 15 of the machines,and finds that the average increase was only 26 with a standard deviation of 6.2.
-What is the critical value for an upper-tailed hypothesis test of the population mean when the population variance is unknown in which a null hypothesis is tested at the 0.05 level of significance based on a sample size of 18?

• A)2.110
• B)2.101
• C)1.734
• D)1.740

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