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- In a law office, the average number of billed hours per day was 146 last year. In the first 75 days of this year, the average number of billed hours per day is 160 with a standard deviation of 56 hours. When testing the hypothesis (at the 10% level of signficance) that the average number of billed hours per day has increased, what test statistic? (please round your answer to 2 decimal places)
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