Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, 3rd Edition

... such cases, use the closest table with fewer degrees of freedom. In this case, that means the table with 100 degrees of freedom. The observed t-statistic 2.898 in this example lies between t = 2.626 and t = 3.174 in the first column of Table 16.2, implying that the p-value is between 0.001 and 0.005. In fact, software computes the p-value to be 0.0023.

Table 16.2 Percentiles of the t-distribution (a larger table is inside the back cover). Figure 16.2 Full Alternative Text

Because the p-value is less than the chosen level α = 0.01, the firm rejects H₀ and concludes that average rents in San Francisco exceed the break-even amount $2,000. ...