The local oil changing business is very busy on Saturday mornings and is considering expanding. A national study of similar businesses reported the mean number of customers waiting to have their oil changed on Saturday morning is 3.6. Suppose the local oil changing business owner, wants to perform a hypothesis test. The null hypothesis is the population mean is 3.6 and the alternative hypothesis that the population mean is not equal to 3.6. The owner takes a random sample of 16 Saturday mornings during the past year and determines the sample mean is 4.2 and the sample standard deviation is 1.4. It can be assumed that the population is normally distributed and the level of significance is 0.05. The table "t" value for this problem is _______.
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The local oil changing business is very busy on Saturday mornings and is considering expanding. A national study of similar businesses reported the mean number of customers waiting to have their oil changed on Saturday morning is 3.6. Suppose the local oil changing business owner, wants to perform a hypothesis test. The null hypothesis is the population mean is 3.6 and the alternative hypothesis that the population mean is not equal to 3.6. The owner takes a random sample of 16 Saturday mornings during the past year and determines the sample mean is 4.2 and the sample standard deviation is 1.4. It can be assumed that the population is normally distributed. The observed "t" value for this problem is _______. 0.43 0.71 0.05 1.71 1.33
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The local oil changing business is very busy on Saturday mornings and is considering expanding. A national study of similar businesses reported the mean number of customers waiting to have their oil changed on Saturday morning is 3.6. Suppose the local oil changing business owner, wants to perform a hypothesis test. The null hypothesis is the population mean is 3.6 and the alternative hypothesis is the population mean is not equal to 3.6. The owner takes a random sample of 20 Saturday mornings during the past year and determines the sample mean is 4.5 and the sample standard deviation is 1.4. It can be assumed that the population is normally distributed. The level of significance is 0.01. The decision rule for this problem is to reject the null hypothesis if the observed "t" value is _______. Group of answer choices less than -2.120 or greater than 2.120 less than -3.120 or greater than 3.120 less than -2.861 or greater than 2.861 less than -1.761 or greater than 1.761 less than -2.753 or greater than 1.753
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