Faced with rising fax costs, a firm issued a guideline that transmissions of 10 pages or more should be sent by 2-day mail instead. Exceptions are allowed, but they want the average to be 10 or below.

The firm examined 45 randomly chosen fax transmissions during the next year, yielding a sample mean of 14.44 with a standard deviation, s = 4.45 pages. Is the true mean greater than 10 at a 99% confidence level?

A. Choose the Hypothesis

B. Specify the Decision Rule

C. Calculate the Test Statistic

D. Make the Decision

E. Give an interpretation of the Decision

F. P-value Method

1. Calculate the P-value. What is it?

2. Does that P-value support the Decision in Part D