Assume That You Want to Test the Claim That the Paired

question 3

Multiple Choice

Assume that you want to test the claim that the paired sample data come from a population for which the mean difference is $\mu _ { d } = 0$ . Compute the value of the $t$ test statistics. Round intermediate calculations to four decimal places as needed and final answers to three decimal places as needed.
$\begin{array}{l|lllll}x & 9 & 6 & 7 & 5 & 12 \\\hline y & 6 & 8 & 3 & 6 & 7\end{array}$

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

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