Nationally, patients who go to the emergency room wait an average of 7 hours to be admitted into the hospital. Do patients at rural hospitals have a higher waiting time? The 12 randomly selected...

Nationally, patients who go to the emergency room wait an average of 7 hours to be admitted into the hospital. Do patients at rural hospitals have a higher waiting time? The 12 randomly selected patients who went to the emergency room at rural hospitals waited an average of 8.5 hours to be admitted into the hospital. The standard deviation for these 12 patients was 1.9 hours. What can be concluded at the the αα = 0.01 level of significance level of significance?

The null and alternative hypotheses would be:

H0:  μ  = ____________

H1:  μ > _____________

The test statistic t  = __________  (please show your answer to 3 decimal places.)

The p-value =  ________________  (Please show your answer to 4 decimal places.)