A university is interested in promoting graduates of its honor program by establ

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A university is interested in promoting graduates of its honor program by establishing that the mean GPA of these graduates exceeds 3.50. A sample of 40 honors students is taken and is found to have a mean GPA equal to 3.60 and standard deviation equal to 0.35. A. What is the population parameter to be tested? Specify whether it is a mean or proportion and what the mean measure is in words in the context of the problem. B. Perform the hypothesis test at a 5%level of significance. Specify the competing hypotheses, the test statistic, the p-value, the critical value(s). C. Does the data support the university's claim, does the mean GPA of graduates from this university exceed 3.50? Write a conclusion in a paragraph with complete sentences. Conclusion must include the following elements reject or do not reject the null, state whether or is not enough evidence to support the claim, state the significance level, restate the claim in terms of the data.

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THE ANSWER IS OPTION A

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the population parameter to be tested is the MEAN GPA of the university honors students

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