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A Medical Researcher Wondered If There Is a Significant Difference

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A medical researcher wondered if there is a significant difference between the mean birth weight of boy and girl babies. She weighed a random sample of five babies of each gender. Their weights (pounds) are shown below, along with some MegaStat results.
 Boys  Girls 5.9205.740mean1.8811.813std.dev.55n\begin{array}{|r|r|r|}\hline \text { Boys } & {\text { Girls }} \\\hline 5.920 & 5.740 &mean\\\hline 1.881 & 1.813&std. dev. \\\hline 5 & 5&n\\\hline\end{array}

8 df 0.1800 difference (Boys - Girls)  3.4125 pooled variance 1.8473 pooled std. dev. 1.1683 standard error of difference 0 hypothesized difference 0.15 t .4407 p-value (one-tailed, upper)  \begin{aligned}8 & \text { df } \\0.1800 & \text { difference (Boys - Girls) } \\3.4125 & \text { pooled variance } \\1.8473 & \text { pooled std. dev. } \\1.1683 & \text { standard error of difference } \\0 & \text { hypothesized difference } \\0.15 & \text { t } \\.4407 & \text { p-value (one-tailed, upper) }\end{aligned} The population means:


A) may be assumed equal at any customary ?.
B) should be assumed unequal at any customary ?.
C) are not relevant to this paired t-test.

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