Question: According to the August 2009 Readers Digest article Where Our Garbage Goes, the average American tosses 4.6 pounds of garbage every day. A small town

According to the August 2009 Reader’s Digest article “Where Our Garbage Goes,” the average American tosses 4.6 pounds of garbage every day. A small town in Vermont initiated a Going Green campaign and asked residents to work on recycling more and reducing their generation of garbage each day. To estimate the average amount of trash discarded by people in their town, 18 households were randomly selected and all were asked to carefully weigh their trash on the same day. The average amount for the sample was 3.89 pounds, with a standard deviation of 1.322 pounds. Is there sufficient evidence that the Vermont town now has significantly lower average daily garbage amounts than the average American household? Use a 0.05 level of significance and assume weights are normally distributed.

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