The NCAA Is Interested in Estimating the Difference in Mean

question 26

True/False

The NCAA is interested in estimating the difference in mean number of daily training hours for men and women athletes on college campuses.It wants 95 percent confidence and will select a sample of 10 men and 10 women for the study.The variances are assumed equal and the populations normally distributed.The sample results are:
Based on these sample data,the estimate for the standard deviation of the sampling distribution is found by taking the square root of the sum of the two sample variances.

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