Find the mean average sentence length in the document

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Question: A literary historian examines a newly discovered document possibly written by Oberon Theseus. The mean average sentence length of the surviving undisputed works of Oberon Theseus is 48.72 words. The historian counts words in sentences between five successive 101 periods in the document in question to obtain a mean average sentence length of 39.46 words with standard deviation 7.45 words. (Thus the sample size is five.)

a. Determine if these data provide sufficient evidence, at the 1% level of significance, to conclude that the mean average sentence length in the document is less than 48.72.

b. Estimate the p-value of the test.

c. Based on the answers to parts (a) and (b), state whether or not it is likely that the document was written by Oberon Theseus.

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