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An engineer designed a valve that will regulate water pressure on an automobile engine. The engineer designed the valve such that it would produce a mean pressure of 5.7 pounds/square inch. It is believed that the valve performs above the specifications. The valve was tested on 8 engines and the mean pressure was 6.2 pounds/square inch with a variance of 0.49. A level of significance of 0.05 will be used. Assume the population distribution is approximately normal. Make the decision to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.