Assume That You Want to Test the Claim That the Paired

question 122

Multiple Choice

Assume that you want to test the claim that the paired sample data come from a population for which the mean differencenis $\mu _ { \mathrm { d } } = 0$ 0. Compute the value of the t test statistic. Round intermediate calculations to four decimal places as needed and final answers to three decimal places as needed.
- $\begin{array}{c|ccccc}\mathrm{x} & 9 & 1 & 7 & 7 & 11 \\\hline \mathrm{y} & 6 & 3 & 3 & 8 & 6\end{array}$

• A) \(t = 1.292\)
• B) \(t = 2.890\)
• C) \(t = 0.415\)
• D) \(\mathrm { t } = 0.578\)

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