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The city Sanitation Department has been asked to evaluate the city's recycling program. Under this program,...

The city Sanitation Department has been asked to evaluate the city's recycling program. Under this program, 20 trash collection districts are subject to mandatory recycling, while 40 districts continue to have optional recycling. If the recycling program is working, the amount of trash collected in the mandatory recycling districts should be lower than the amount collected in the optional recycling districts. Data on the program in terms of pounds of trash per household per month are presented below:

Type of District

Mean

Standard Deviation

Number of Districts

Mandatory

100

50

20

Optional

125

75

40

Present research and null hypotheses and evaluate them.

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