According to a National Survey,the Average Commuting Time for People $\alpha$

question 48

Multiple Choice

According to a national survey,the average commuting time for people who commute to a city with a population of 1 to 3 million is 19.0 minutes.Suppose a researcher lives in a city with a population of 2.4 million and wants to test this claim in her city.Taking a random sample of 20 commuters she calculates a mean time of 19.346 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.842 minutes.What is the critical value for $\alpha$ = .10 to test the hypotheses.

• A)1.729
• B)1.725
• C)1.328
• D)1.325
• E)1.645

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