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There are 24 students enrolled in an introductory statistics class at a small university. As an in-class exercise the students were asked how many hours of television they watch each week. Their responses, broken down by gender, are summarized in the provided table. Assume that the students enrolled in the statistics class are representative of all students at the university.
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-Percentiles of the bootstrap distribution (based on 5,000 samples) are provided. Use the percentiles to provide a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the mean number of hours spent watching television for males and females at this university. Indicate which percentiles you are using.
A) -0.888 to 4.972
B) -1.497 to 5.657
C) -0.395 to 4.573
D) -0.189 to 4.056

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Use the following to answer the questions below:
There are 24 students enrolled in an introductory statistics class at a small university. As an in-class exercise the students were asked how many hours of television they watch each week. Their responses, broken down by gender, are summarized in the provided table. Assume that the students enrolled in the statistics class are representative of all students at the university. 
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-Percentiles of the bootstrap distribution (based on 5,000 samples) are provided. Use the percentiles to provide a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the mean number of hours spent watching television for males and females at this university. Indicate which percentiles you are using. 
A) -0.888 to 4.972 
B) -1.497 to 5.657 
C) -0.395 to 4.573 
D) -0.189 to 4.056

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-0.888 to 4.972 (using the 2.5%- and 97.5%-iles)

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