Sandra's marketing firm is advertising a new type of coffee for their client. As part of their market research, the firm randomly selects 40 adults from the tri-state area and ask them how much they spend annually on coffee. The sample mean is $178 and the sample standard deviation is $14. Based on this data, the manager of the firm claims that he believes the average annual amount spent on coffee by all adults in the tri-state area is less than $185. Is the manager correct? Test his claim at the 0.01 significance level.

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Sandra's marketing firm is advertising a new type of coffee for their client. As part of their market research, the firm randomly selects 40 adults from the tri-state area and ask them how much they spend annually on coffee. The sample mean is $178 and the sample standard deviation is $14. Based on this data, the manager of the firm claims that he believes the average annual amount spent on coffee by all adults in the tri-state area is less than $185. Is the manager correct? Test his claim at the 0.01 significance level. 

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df=n-1   =40-1   =39

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