A Company Decided to Test the Hypothesis That the Average

question 85

Multiple Choice

A company decided to test the hypothesis that the average time a company's employees are spending to check their private e-mails at work is more than 6 minutes. A random sample of 40 employees were selected and they averaged 6.6 minutes. It is believed that the population standard deviation is 1.7 minutes. The α is set to 0.05. The p-value for this hypothesis test would be ________.

• A) 0.0644
• B) 0.0128
• C) 0.0268
• D) 0.0395

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