The postanesthesia care area (recovery room) at St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, was recently enlarged. The hope was that the change would increase the mean number of patients served per day to more than 25. A random sample of 15 days revealed the following numbers of patients.

25 27 25 26 25 28 28 27 24 26 25 29 25 27 24 At the 0.01 significance level, can we conclude that the mean number of patients per day is more than 25?

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a. What is the decision rule? (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

b. Compute the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

c. What is your decision regarding H0?

d. Compute the p-value.