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A researcher for Malco Pharmaceuticals wishes to determine if women have lower cholesterol levels than men at the .05 significance level. The result of the t test for equal variances is shown below. Men 195.02 63.33 47 Mean Variance Observations Pooled Variance df Stat PIT<t) one-tail Critical one-tail PIT<t) two-tail t Critical two-tail Women 188.88 76.56 50 70.15 95 3.609 0.0002 1.6611 0.0005 1.9853 15: Which statement is correct about the outcome of the hypothesis test? A Reject H, and...
Problem. Meghan Markle believes that newer apartments are more expensive than old ones in the LSU neighborhood. She took a sample of n-12 apartments and found that the sample correlation coefficient r between the monthly rent (x) and the age of apartment building (y) is r-0.576. Test the ху hypothesis that these quantities are negatively correlated. )Alternatives Select one: HP #0 H O HP0 O H 0 OH P0 o HPy0 <0 ху HPo H P0 y None of the...
Do men and women select different breakfasts? The breakfasts ordered by randomly selected men and women at a popular breakfast place are shown below, Frequencies of Breakfasts for Men and Women French Toast Pancakes Waffles Omelets Men 54 79 Women 109 120 What can be concluded at the a = 0.01 significance level? a What is the correct statistical test to use? Homogeneity Independence Paired t-test Goodness-of-Fit b. What are the null and alternative hypotheses? Ho: The distribution of breakfast...
395 friends are smiling in their profile pictures. Of another independent random sample of 125 American friends, she found that 105 friends flashed a wide grin in her profie pictures Popolatios who are niling | proportion 1. China s95 2. United States Test the smiling in the Facebook profile pictures 35 t or 1,00 Select one n,> 0 O None of the other four (i) Test n 36 c answered out of 200 Select one. 1 o " 2.00 07220...
A new ACT preparation they recorded the are normally distributed.) claims that high school and practice ACT scores of 6 individuals after a one-month period. The results are shown in the following table: (Assume that ACT scores Test to see whether the preparation program will increase the ACT sco Sa is 1.2 in the tablel) e on avernagye by more than 0as points (Note thut the samolrnot the sle ) Alternatives Select one: O Mo 0.85 H, a 0.85 O...
(20.37) Researchers claim that women speak significantly more words per day than men. One estimate is that a woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000. To investigate such claims, one study used a special device to record the conversations of male and female university students over a four- day period. From these recordings, the daily word count of the 20 men in the study was determined. Here are their daily word counts 28406 10578...
According to Robert Trivers, why are men generally larger and more physically aggressive than women? Because women are more reproductively “valuable” than men, hence competition for mates is fiercer among men Because men invest more heavily in reproduction than women Because men secrete more testosterone Trivers’ theory does not speculate on the origin of the sex difference in size and physical aggression Although some women are interested in casual sex (short-term mating), research has suggested that there are differences in...
(3) Test, at a 0.05 level of significance, the alternate hypothesis that the average price per square feet is more than $30 in the greater Baton Rouge area. Problem. Hayley Westenra wants to develop a simple linear regression model, y = B. + B.X + E, to predict the selling price of a house in the greater Baton Rouge area (Y) based on the size of its living area in square feet (x). She asked for your help with the...
It seems these days that college graduates who are employed full-time work more than 40-hour weeks. Data are available that can help us decide if this is true. A survey was recently sent to a group of adults selected at random. There were 15 respondents who were college graduates employed full-time. The mean number of hours worked per week by these 15 respondents was 45 hours, with a standard deviation of 9 hours. Assume that the population of hours worked...
Forbes reports that women trust recommendations from Pinterest gender? The following sample data shew the number of women and men who stated in a recent semple that they trust recommendations more than recommendations from any other social network platform (Forbes website, April 10, 2012 ). But, does trust in Pinterest difter by recommendations made on Pinterest Men 170 Trust Recommendations Made on Pinterest 117102 Women 150 Sample a. What is the point s the point estimate of the proportion of...