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- A tire manufacturer advertises that their tires last 40,000 miles. A customer questions the claim as being overstated, and does a survey of 100 tires and finds the
mean life to be 36,000 with a standard deviation of 3,500 miles. Test the hypotheses at a .10 level.
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