Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-A real estate agent surmises that the median rent for a studio apartment in a mountain community in Colorado is less than $\$ 2000$ per month. The rents for a random sample of 15 studio apartments are listed below. Find the critical value to test the agent's hypothesis. Use $\alpha = 0.01$ .
$\begin{array} { l l l l l } \$ 2300 & \$ 2250 & \$ 1700 & \$ 1875 & \$ 1735 \\ \$ 2750 & \$ 2175 & \$ 1670 & \$ 2390 & \$ 3000 \\ \$ 1995 & \$ 2000 & \$ 2075 & \$ 2000 & \$ 1780 \end{array}$

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