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A Study by Thienprasiddhi et al. examined a sample of 16 subjects with open-angle glaucoma and unilateral hemifield defects. The ages (years) of the subjects were:

62 62 68 48 51 60 51 57
57 41 62 50 53 34 62 61

Can we conclude that the mean age of the population from which the sample may be presumed to have been drawn is less than 60 years? Let α = .05

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