Question

The Mississippi Department of Prisons traditionally presumes the average starting salary of a senior prison guard in southern state prisons is $48k. Is this reasonable given the random sample below from several southern states outside Mississippi? 30, 33, 31, 39, 50, 62, 45, 43, 35, 48, 70, 40, 35, 42 a) Provide null and alternative hypotheses in formal terms and layperson's terms for the t one-sample test b) Do the math and reject/accept at a=.05 c) Explain the results in layperson's terms

Answer 1

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