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The Consumer Reports Restaurant Customer Satisfaction Survey is based upon 148,599 visits to full-service restaurant chains. One of the variables in the study is meal price, the average amount paid per person for dinner and drinks, minus the tip. Suppose a reporter for the Sun Coast times thought that it would be of interest to her readers to conduct a similar study for restaurants located on the Grand Strand section in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The reporter selected a sample of eight seafood restaurants, eight Italian restaurants, and eight steakhouses. The following data show the meal prices ($) obtained for the 24 restaurants sampled.

Italian	Seafood	Steakhouse
$12	$16	$24
13	18	19
15	17	23
17	26	25
18	23	21
20	15	22
17	19	27
24	18	31

Use = 0.05 to test whether there is a significant difference among the mean meal price for the three types of restaurants.

State the null and alternative hypotheses

.H₀: Not all the population means are equal. H_a: _Italian = _Seafood = _Steakhouse

H₀: _Italian = _Seafood = _Steakhouse

\H_a: Not all the population means are equal.

H₀: _{Italian Seafood Steakhouse}

H_a: _Italian = _Seafood = _Steakhouse

H₀: At least two of the population means are equal.

H_a: At least two of the population means are different

.H₀: _Italian = _Seafood = _Steakhouse

H_a: _{Italian Seafood Steakhouse}

Find the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Find the p-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)p-value =

What is your conclusion?

Reject H₀. There is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean meal prices are not all the same for the three types of restaurants.

Do not reject H₀. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean meal prices are not all the same for the three types of restaurants.

Reject H₀. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean meal prices are not all the same for the three types of restaurants.

Do not reject H₀. There is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean meal prices are not all the same for the three types of restaurants.