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(Solved): The state of CT claims that the average time on death row is 15 years. A random survey of 75 death ...
The state of CT claims that the average time on death row is 15 years. A random survey of 75 death row inmates revealed that the average length of time on death row is 17.2 years with a standard deviation of 5.8 years. Conduct a hypothesis to test the state of CT's claim. What type of test should be run? z-test of a proportion t-test of a mean The alternative hypothesis indicates a right-tailed test two-tailed test left-tailed test
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Since we are comparing a sample mean to a population mean, we should conduct a t-test of