Assume That You Want to Test the Claim That the Paired

question 2

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 statistic. Round intermediate calculations to four decimal places as needed and final answers to three decimal places as needed.
$\begin{array}{l|llllllll}x & 28 & 31 & 20 & 25 & 28 & 27 & 33 & 35 \\\hline y & 26 & 27 & 26 & 25 & 29 & 32 & 33 & 34\end{array}$

• A) \(t = - 1.480\)
• B) \(t = - 1.185\)
• C) \(t = - 0.523\)
• D) \(t = 0.690\)

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