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A biologist believes that men in Greybull, Wyoming are taller than men in other places. It...

A biologist believes that men in Greybull, Wyoming are taller than men in other places. It is known that the average height of men in the U.S. is 69 inches with a standard deviation of 2.5 inches. The biologist randomly selects 40 men in Greybull, Wyoming and gets an average height of 70 inches. The biologist wants to use a 95% significance level to test this claim.

two sample, dependent means

two sample, independent means

one sample proportion

cannot do

one sample mean

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Option-E) one sample mean

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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