A travel association claims that the mean daily food cost for two adults traveling together on vacation in San Francisco is $110. A random sample of 14 groups of adults is used to conduct a hypothesis test to show that the mean daily food is greater than 110. Using the mean and sample standard deviation from this sample, the test statistic was calculated to be 1.76. The corresponding p-value of this test is: a. 0.0392 b. 0.10 < p-value < 0.20 c. 0.0784 d. 0.05 < p-value < 0.10
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