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-A college dean believes that the median hours spent studying by full time students is at least 12 hours per week. In a random sample of 100 students, 65 studied more than 12 hours, 10 studied exactly 12 hours and the rest studied less than 12 hours. Find the critical value to test the dean's hypothesis. Use $\alpha = 0.05$.
A) $- 1.645$
B) $- 1.96$
C) $- 2.33$
D) $- 2.575$

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The critical value for a one-tailed test at $\alpha = 0.05$ level of significance is $-1.645$, which corresponds to the z-value in a standard normal distribution for a one-tailed test.

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