MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Intro Stats (5th Edition)
MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Intro Stats (5th Edition)
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Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15, Problem 48E

Computer lab fees again The technology committee of Chapter 14, Exercise 42 wants to perform a test to see if the mean amount of time students are spending in the lab has increased from 55 minutes. Here are the data from a random sample of 12 students.

Time  
52 74
57 53
54 136
76 73
62 8
52 62
  1. a) Plot the data. Are any of the observations outliers? Explain.
  2. b) What do you conclude about the claim? If there are outliers, perform the test with and without the outliers present.
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