A Newly Hired Basketball Coach Promised a High-Paced Attack That

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A newly hired basketball coach promised a high-paced attack that will put more points on the board than the team's previously tepid offense historically managed. After a few months, the team owner looks at the data to test the coach's claim. He takes a sample of 36 of the team's games under the new coach and finds that they scored an average of 101 points with a standard deviation of 6 points. Over the past 10 years, the team had averaged 99 points. What is the value of the appropriate test statistic to test the new coach's claim at the 1% significance level?

A) t₃₅ = 0.33
B) z = 0.33
C) t₃₅ = 2.00
D) z = 2.00