A Researcher Claims That the Mean Resting Pulse Rate of All

question 22

Multiple Choice

A researcher claims that the mean resting pulse rate of all college basketball players in the United States is less than the mean resting pulse rate of all professional basketball players in the United States. The resting pulse rates of a random sample of 115 college basketball players were measured as were the resting pulse rates of a random sample of 80 professional basketball players. The mean resting pulse rates of the two groups were compared.
An example of a lurking variable that might affect the results of this study is

• A) the team each player is from.
• B) the location the study was administered.
• C) whether or not the players had scholarships in college.
• D) the age of the players.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

An array of values, extracted from sample statistics, considered likely to have within it the value of an unknown population parameter.

Population Variance

Population variance is a measure of the dispersion among numbers in a population set, indicating how much individual numbers differ from the population mean.

Normally Distributed

A distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Confidence Interval

Values range, derived from statistical samples, that possibly includes the value of an elusive population parameter.