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2. The fuel economy sticker on a new SUV\'s window sticker indicates the owner can expect 16 mpg in city driving and 20 mpg highway driving and 18 mpg overall. Accurate gasoline records for one such vehicle were kept, and a random sample of mileage per tank of gasoline was collected: Test whether the population average mpg is actually greater than 18 mpg using a 1% level of significance. a) Can we consider the data to be normally distributed? Explain. b) State the null and alternate hypotheses. e) Would you perform a one-tailed or two-tailed test? Why? d) Compute the test statistic. e) Find the p-value. Round this value to four decimal places. f) Would you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? g) Interpret your conclusion in the context of this problem.

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