Question: Statistics can help to decide the authorship of literary work. Sonnets by a certain Elizabethan poet are known to contain an average of new words (words not used in the poet’s other works). The standard deviation of the number of new words is . Now a manuscript with six new sonnets has come to light, and scholars are debating whether it is the poet’s work. The new sonnets contain an average of words not used in the poet’s known works. We expect poems by another author to contain more new words, so to see if we have evidence that the new sonnets are not by our poet we test

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Give the z test and its P-value. What do you conclude about the authorship of the new poems?

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