Garden Giant makes rubber garden hoses. The life of their Long Life garden hose is 8.1 years, with a standard deviation of 1.1 years. Their research and development department has come up with a new rubber/plastic compound that they hope will extend hose life. This new material is expensive. They use this new material to manufacture 64 hoses, and they

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Garden Giant makes rubber garden hoses. The life of their Long Life garden hose is 8.1 years, with a standard deviation of 1.1 years. Their research and development department has come up with a new rubber/plastic compound that they hope will extend hose life. This new material is expensive. They use this new material to manufacture 64 hoses, and they test the hoses for durability. The new hoses have an average life of 8.13 years. Do you think this is enough evidence to conclude that the new material is superior? Explain.

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