Test the hypothesis that $B_1=0$ at the $5 \%$ significance level

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I am told to test the hypothesis and this is what I did:

$H_{0}:\beta_{1}=0$

$H_{a}:\beta_{1}\not=0$

So then I have $$t^{*}=\dfrac{\hat{\beta_{1}}-\beta_{1}}{\dfrac{s_{\beta_1}}{\sqrt n}}$$

$\beta_{1}$=.5 and $\hat{\beta_{1}}$=.283

n=10 and $s_{\beta_{1}}$=.26

So $t^{*}$ ended up being equal to -2.67

The degree's of freedom is $n-1=9$ and so $t_{1}$ at $\alpha=.05$ is 2.262

So since |$t^{*}$|>2.62, we can reject.

I am unsure if that is perfectly correct and it probably is not, and if that is the case can you explain why? Thanks.