Construct a Confidence Interval for µD the Mean of the Differences

question 61

Multiple Choice

Construct a confidence interval for µd the mean of the differences d for the population of paired data. Assume that the population of paired differences is normally distributed. A test of writing ability is given to a random
Sample of students before and after they completed a formal writing course. The results are given below.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean difference between the before and after scores. $\begin{array}{llllllllllll}\text { Before } & 70 & 80 & 92 & 99 & 93 & 97 & 76 & 63 & 68 & 71 & 74 \\\hline \text { After } & 69 & 79 & 90 & 96 & 91 & 95 & 75 & 64 & 62 & 64 & 76\end{array}$

• A) \(1.2 < \mu _ { d } < 2.8\)
• B) \(- 0.2 < \mu _ { d } < 4.2\)
• C) \(- 0.1 < \mu _ { d } < 4.1\)
• D) \(- 0.5 < \mu _ { d } < 4.5\)

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