The National Oceanographic Data Center provides useful data for vacation planning. Below are listed beach temperatures in the month of July for various U.S. coastal areas. Using the 0.05 level of significance, can it be concluded that there is a difference in temperatures? Omit the Southern Pacific temperatures and repeat the procedure. Is the conclusion the same?

Follow this procedure:
a. State the hypotheses and identify the claim.
b. Find the critical value(s).
c. Compute the test value.
d. Make the decision.
e. Summarize the results.
Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing unless otherwise specified.

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Southern Pacific 67 68 Western Gulf 86 86 Eastern Gulf 87 Southern Atlantic 76 81 82 84 80 86 87 86 86 69 63 62 85 79 85 85