A Researcher Wants to Conduct a Before/after Study on 11

question 13

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to conduct a before/after study on 11 subjects to determine if a new cholesterol medication results in higher HDL cholesterol readings.The null hypothesis is that the average difference is zero while the alternative hypothesis is that the average difference is not zero.Scores are obtained on the subjects both before and after taking the medication.After subtracting the after scores from the before scores, the average difference is computed to be -2.40 with a sample standard deviation of 1.21.Assume that the differences are normally distributed in the population.The degrees of freedom for this test are _______.

• A)11
• B)10
• C)9
• D)20
• E)2

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