The management of Regional Hospital has made substantial improvements in their hospital and would like to test and determine whether there has been a significant decrease in the average length of stay of their patients in their hospital. The following data has been accumulated from before and after the improvements. At 95% confidence, test to determine if there has been a significant reduction in the average length of stay.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery