Here is how to work the problems and write the expressions.
Well on a table of data, if the y coordinates increase a lot over a short x distance then it will be steep.
In an equation, you would put it into y = mx + b form and whatever your m is will be your slope. If m is large, it will be steep.
Solution :
It is given that we have a null and an alternative hypothesis. The hypothesis are :


We have to find if the cost of average home has decreased or not in this month.
So it is given that the test statics is -1.79, so the p value associated with the test statics is less than ( α ) 0.01
Therefore, we can conclude that the cost of the average house is less than $ 240,000.
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