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The Rocky Mountain district sales manager of Rath Publishing, Inc., a college textbook publishing company, claims that the sales representatives make an average of 40 sales calls per week on professors. Several reps say that this estimate is too low. To investigate, a random sample of 28 sales representatives reveals that the mean number of calls made last week was 42. The standard deviation of the sample is 2.1 calls. Using the 0.05 significance level, can we conclude that the mean number of calls per salesperson per week is more than 40? (Remember to complete the 5 step hypothesis testing procedure to answer this question).
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H
: m = 40
H
: m > 40
Reject H
if t > 1.703.
t = 42 - 40 5.04
2.1¸Ö28
Reject H
and conclude the mean number is greater than 40.

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