A consumer group plans to test whether a new passenger car that is advertised to have a mean highway miles per gallon of at least 29 actually meets this level. They plan to test the hypothesis using a significance level of 0.05 and a sample size of n = 81 cars. It is believed that the population standard deviation is 5 mpg. Based upon this information, what is the critical value in terms of miles per gallon that would be needed prior to finding beta? 29.913 -28 Cannot be determined without knowing the sample mean. 28.0861
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