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Transcribed Image Text:Revenue for a full-service funeral. According to the
National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the
nation's 19,000 funeral homes collected an average of
$7,640 per full-service funeral in 2019 (www.nfda.org).
A random sample of 36 funeral homes reported revenue
data for the current year. Among other measures, each
reported its average fee for a full-service funeral. These
data (in thousands of dollars) are shown in the following
table.
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7.9
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7.7
6.3
8.8
6.5 7.9
7.7 7.9
7.9
9.9
5.8
6.4
6.8
6.6
8.9
7.2
5.8
7.5
8.0
6.3
7.1
7.7
7.0
5.7
6.1
6.6
6.7
6.9
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7.1
6.8
7.1
a. What are the appropriate null and alternative hypothe-
ses to test whether the average full-service fee of US fu-
neral homes this year is less than $7640?
b. Conduct the test at a = .05. Do the sample data pro-
vide sufficient evidence to conclude that the average
fee this year is lower than in 2019?
c. In conducting the test, was it necessary to assume that
the population of average full-service fees was normally
distributed? Justify your anSwer.
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