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1. At a recent PTA meeting, Mrs. Anderson voiced a complaint that the school children spend too much time on school buses, and she demanded that more buses and shorter routes be provided. The representative from the Board of Education responded that, on the average, a school child spends only 30 minutes per day on the bus. Mrs. Anderson promptly retained you to conduct an investigation of her claim. You then selected 10 names at random from the student body and had those students keep careful records of the amount of time they spent on the bus on a randomly selected day in a randomly selected week in April. The scores are given below.

Student Time on Bus (minutes)

1 32

2 28

3 38

4 35

5 35

6 29

7 31

8 37

9 40

10 27

1. Which of the following is the most appropriate statement of your Decision?

	a.	tobt=(your value)< tcrit (your value); Reject Ho in support of H1: The children spend too much time on the bus.
	b.	tobt=(your value) > tcrit (your value); Reject Ho in support of H1: The children spend too much time on the bus.
	c.	tobt=(your value)< tcrit (your value); Retain Ho: The children spend too much time on the bus.
	d.	tobt=(your value) > tcrit (your value); Retain Ho: The children spend an average amount of time on the bus.