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In your work for a national health organization, you are asked to monitor the amount of sodium in a certain brand of cereal. You find that a random sample of 52 cereal servings has a mean sodium content of 232 milligrams with a standard deviation of 10 milligrams. At α = .04, can you conclude that the mean sodium content per serving of cereal is less than 230 milligrams?

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