Eighteen Overweight Volunteers Weighed Themselves Before and After a Two-Week

question 41

Multiple Choice

Eighteen overweight volunteers weighed themselves before and after a two-week diet.The appropriate design for testing the significance of the difference between the means is

• A)related-samples t-test.
• B)independent-samples t-test.
• C)one-sample t-test.
• D)z-test.

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