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Transcribed Image Text:An automobile company is looking for fueladditives that might increase gas mileage. Without additives,
theircars are known to average 18 mpg (miles pergallons) with a standard deviation of 3 mpg on a road
trip from Muscat to Sur. The company now asks whethera new additive increases this value. In a study,
forty cars are sent on a road trip from Muscat to Sur. Şuppose it turns out that the forty cars
averaged = (18.75) mpg with the additive. Can we conclude from this result that the additive is
effective?
a. With a significance level of 5%.
b. With a significance level of 1%.

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