A food company claims that their packets of chips have an average weight of 50g. A consumer advocacy group takes a random sample of 25 packets and finds that the average weight is 49.8g with a standard deviation of 0.9g. Can the consumer advocacy group reject the claim of the food company at a significance level of 0.05?

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