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9.5 Exercise 39

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The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about ten. Members of a personnel department do not believe this figure. They randomly survey eight employees. The number of sick days they took for the past year are as follows: 12; 4; 15; 3; 11; 8; 6; 8. Let x = the number of sick days they took for the past year. Should the personnel team believe that the mean number is ten?

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 9.5 Additional Information and Full Hypothesis Test Examples, exercise 39

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