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9.4 Exercise 55

Avg difficulty 2.5

A report by the Gallup Poll found that a woman visits her doctor, on average, at most 5.8 times each year. A random sample of 20 women results in these yearly visit totals

  1. 3
  2. 2
  3. 1
  4. 3
  5. 7
  6. 2
  7. 9
  8. 4
  9. 6
  10. 6
  11. 8
  12. 0
  13. 5
  14. 6
  15. 4
  16. 2
  17. 1
  18. 3
  19. 4
  20. 1

At the α = 0.05 level can it be concluded that the sample mean is higher than 5.8 visits per year?

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