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2. A claim is made that the average salary for all jobs in Minnesota is less than $68,000. You are going to test the claim using α = 0.01 and assume that your data is normally distributed and the population standard deviation (σ) is not known.
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2a. Write the null and alternative hypotheses symbolically and identify which hypothesis is the claim. Then identify if the test is one-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed and explain why.
H0: μ ≥ $68,000
H1: μ < $68,000
This is a left-tailed test because the claim is that the average salary is less than $68,000.
Test Statistic Critical Value p-value
2b. Identify and explain which test statistic you will use in the cells designated to the right. Explain your answer below.