Doritos chips are one of the most popular chips in the year 2020. Frito-Lay produces snack-sized bags of Doritos with 1.75-ounce bags. Unfortunately, Frito-Lay has received many complaints that the bags of chips lack the promised amount of chips. PepsiCo, the owner of Frito-Lay, decide to run an internal investigation of their Doritos chip production. They sample around 500 bags of chips to discover that they found an average of 1.59 ounces with a standard deviation of .12 ounces. Conduct a hypothesis test with an alpha-level of .05. Should they change their production of Doritos chips to match the 1.75 ounces on the bag?

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Doritos chips are one of the most popular chips in the year 2020. Frito-Lay produces snack-sized bags of Doritos with 1.75-ounce bags. Unfortunately, Frito-Lay has received many complaints that the bags of chips lack the promised amount of chips. PepsiCo, the owner of Frito-Lay, decide to run an internal investigation of their Doritos chip production. They sample around 500 bags of chips to discover that they found an average of 1.59 ounces with a standard deviation of .12 ounces. Conduct a hypothesis test with an alpha-level of .05. Should they change their production of Doritos chips to match the 1.75 ounces on the bag?

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