A large company that produces a "tat-burner pill claims an average Ioss of 20 pounds in the first month. A consumer advocacy group believes that this claim is actually just "hype" intended to sell more of the compound. The advocacy group Would like to obtain statistical evidence about this issue and takes a random sample of 100 consumers who responded that they had purchased the pill but didn't know what the survey was about. They find that these 100 people lost an average of 18 pounds. Let the standard deviation of the population be 7.5 pounds. Clearly state the hypotheses, obtain the test statistic and p-value, and state the decision and conclusion. Show all your work.

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A large company that produces a "tat-burner pill claims an average Ioss of 20 pounds in the first month. A consumer advocacy group believes that this claim is actually just "hype" intended to sell more of the compound. The advocacy group Would like to obtain statistical evidence about this issue and takes a random sample of 100 consumers who responded that they had purchased the pill but didn't know what the survey was about. They find that these 100 people lost an average of 18 pounds. Let the standard deviation of the population be 7.5 pounds. Clearly state the hypotheses, obtain the test statistic and p-value, and state the decision and conclusion. Show all your work.

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