An insurance company claims that the average automobile on the road today is less than 6 years old. A random sample of 15 cars had a average age of 5.4 years with a sample standard deviation of 1.1 years. Assume the population is normally distributed. Test the claim at the α=.05 significance level by comparing the calculated t-score to the critical t-score.

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Section13.3: Special Probability Density Functions
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An insurance company claims that the average automobile on the road today is less than 6 years old. A random sample of 15 cars had a average age of 5.4 years with a sample standard deviation of 1.1 years. Assume the population is normally distributed.
Test the claim at the α=.05 significance level by comparing the calculated t-score to the critical t-score.

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