A recent gasoline survey shows that the national average price of gasoline was $3.498 a gallon. It was felt that gasoline in Texas was significantly lower than the national average. A survey of 10 different suburbs in Dallas, Texas found the average price of gasoline to be $3.394 a gallon with a sample standard deviation of $0.1526. Assume that gas prices follow a normal distribution. We will perform a hypothesis test for this claim at α = 0.01.

Question

The critical value for this test is:
Question 4 options:

1)

2.326

2)

2.821

3)

-2.326

4)

-2.821

Answer 1

1) 2.326