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A certain medication is supposed to contain a dosage of 250 mg
per pill. A lab is quality testing the drug to determine if it contains the correct
dosage, on average.A sample of 50 pills has average dosage 232 mg with standard
deviation 25 mg. At a 2% level of significance, perform the hypothesis test.
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