Statistics (12th Edition)

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Chapter 9 - Inferences Based on Two Samples - Exercises 9.30 - 9.50 - Learning the Mechanics - Page 435: 9.34b

Answer

Reject Null hypothesis

Work Step by Step

From the given values, we have: $t = \frac{-7}{8/\sqrt 16} = \frac{-7}{4} = -3.5$ Since rejection region < 1.341, so null hypothesis will be rejected
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