Nationally, patients who go to the emergency room wait an average of 5 hours to be admitted into the hospital. Do patients at rural hospitals have a higher waiting time? The 10 randomly selected patients who went to the emergency room at rural hospitals waited an average of 8 hours to be admitted into the hospital. The standard deviation for these 10 patients was 3 hours. What can be concluded at the the αα = 0.01 level of significance level of significance? The null and alternative hypotheses would be:       H0: the mean  is <,>,=, or not equal to___also provide the number__?__ H 1:     the mean is <,>,=, or not equal to ___also provide the number __?__      The test statistic    t = __?__ (please show your answer to 3 decimal places.) 2. The p-value = __?__  (Please show your answer to 4 decimal places.)

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Nationally, patients who go to the emergency room wait an average of 5 hours to be admitted into the hospital. Do patients at rural hospitals have a higher waiting time? The 10 randomly selected patients who went to the emergency room at rural hospitals waited an average of 8 hours to be admitted into the hospital. The standard deviation for these 10 patients was 3 hours. What can be concluded at the the αα = 0.01 level of significance level of significance?

The null and alternative hypotheses would be:     

 H0: the mean  is <,>,=, or not equal to___also provide the number__?__

H 1:     the mean is <,>,=, or not equal to ___also provide the number __?__

     The test statistic    t = __?__ (please show your answer to 3 decimal places.)

2. The p-value = __?__  (Please show your answer to 4 decimal places.)

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