The decrease in cholesterol level after eating a certain


The decrease in cholesterol level after eating a certain brand of oatmeal for breakfast for one month in people with cholesterol levels over 200 is normally distributed with mean (in milligrams) μ and standard deviation σ = 3. The brand advertises that eating its oatmeal for breakfast daily for one month will produce a mean decrease in cholesterol of more than 10 points for people with cholesterol levels over 200, but you believe that the mean decrease in cholesterol is actually less than advertised. To explore this, you test the following hypotheses at the 0.05 level.

H0: μ = 10  versus Ha: μ < 10.

You obtain a P-value of 0.052. Which of the following is true?

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