The Rocky Mountain district sales manager of Rath Publishing Inc., a college textbook publishing company, claims that the sales representatives make an average of 43 sales calls per week on professors. Several reps say that this estimate is too low. To investigate, a random sample of 29 sales representatives reveals that the mean number of calls made last week was 44. The standard deviation of the sample is 4.1 calls. Using the 0.050 significance level, can we conclude that the mean number of calls per salesperson per week is more than 43?

H₀: 43

H₁: > 43

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

b.What is your decision regardingH₀?(pick the right word to complete the sentence.)

(Do not reject, Reject) H0. The number of calls is (less, greater) than 43 per week.