The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 20 - Inference about a Population Mean - Chapter 20 Exercises - Page 480: 20.42a

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The data are measured in two different locations of a plant and we only care about whether the two locations have an equal amount of spores. Thus it is a matched pair data problem.
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