The Following Output from MINITAB Presents a Confidence Interval for the Mean

question 1

Multiple Choice

The following output from MINITAB presents a confidence interval for the mean difference between matched pairs
$\begin{array} { r r r r r } & \mathrm { N } & \text { Mean } & \text { StDev } & \text { SEMean } \\\text { Difference } & 17 & 6.7833 & 4.1059 & 0.995827\end{array}$
95% CI for mean difference: (4.672247,8.894353)
How many degrees of freedom are there?

• A) 4.1059
• B) 16
• C) 0.995827
• D) 17

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