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The records of a casualty insurance company show that, in the past, its clients have had a mean of 1.9auto accidents per day with a standard deviation of
. Suppose that we want to carry out a hypothesis test to see if there is support for the actuaries' claim. State the null hypothesis
that we would use for this test.
0.04 . The actuaries of the company claim that the standard deviation of the number of accidents per day is no longer equal to 0.04
H0 and the alternative hypothesis H1
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