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A government's department of transportation requires the manufacturers to provide performance information on tire sidewalls to help prospective buyers make their purchasing decisions. One very important piece of information is the tread wear index, which indicates the tires resistance to tread 'aster. A tire with a grade of 200 should last mice as long, on average, as a tire with a grade of 100. A consumer organization wants to test the actual tread wear index of a brand name of tires that claims -graded 200' on the sidewall of the tire. A random sample of n= 18 indicates a sample mean tread Wear index of 195.4 and a sample Standard deviation of 21.3. Complete parts (a) and (b) below. a. Is there evidence that the population mean amount is different from a grade of 200? (Use a 0.01 level of significance.) State the null and alternative hypotheses

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a) NUll hypothesis is

H0: mu = 200

Ha: mu not equals 200

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