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The medium size serving frozen yogurt has an average of 4 ounces. A random sample has 14 servings with a mean of 4.31 ounces and a standard deviation of 52 ounces. I need to do a test with α = .05 as the claim. Find the p-value for the test. There is a normal distribution of weight per serving.

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Let u be the weight of medium size serving frozen yogurt in ounces.

So we are testing Ho: u=4 ...

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