Thread: Help with hypothesis test

we are doing hypothesis testing and i am completely lost please help.

Full time Ph.D. Students receive an average salary of $12,837 with a standard deviation of $1500 according to the U.S. Department of Education. The dean of a graduate school at a large state university feels that Ph.D. students in his state earn more than this. He surveys 44 randomly selected students and finds their average salary is $13,445. With α = 0.05, is the dean correct?

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we are doing hypothesis testing and i am completely lost please help.

Full time Ph.D. Students receive an average salary of $12,837 with a standard deviation of $1500 according to the U.S. Department of Education. The dean of a graduate school at a large state university feels that Ph.D. students in his state earn more than this. He surveys 44 randomly selected students and finds their average salary is $13,445. With α = 0.05, is the dean correct?

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the approximate test statistic, via the central limit theorem, is

The critcal region is

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