Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 18

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
The cost of a university education has increased at a much faster rate than costs in general over the past twenty years. In order to compensate for this, many students work part- or full-time in addition to attending classes. At one university, it is believed that the average number of hours students work per week exceeds 20. A random sample of 20 students was selected and the following values were observed:

-At α = 0.05

• A) we fail to reject the null hypothesis, and there is no evidence to suggest that students work more than 20 hours per week.
• B) we reject the null hypothesis.
• C) we support the alternative hypothesis; there is strong evidence to suggest that students work more than 20 hours per week.
• D) we know students work more than 20 hours per week, on average.
• E) we reject the null hypothesis. The P-value = 0.4884 indicates that students work more than 20 hours per week.

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