Hypotheses test for single mean

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A large company that produces allergy medications claims that Americans lose an average of 40 hours of work to problems related to seasonal allergies. A consumer advocacy group believes that this claim is actually just "hype" intended to sell more medication. The advocacy group would like to obtain statistical evidence about this issue and takes a random sample of 100 American workers. They find that these 100 people lost an average of 38 hours with a standard deviation of 9.5 hours. What is the P-value for this significance test?

A) 0.98

B) 0.50

C) 0.04

D) 0.02

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