If We Are Testing the Hypothesis About the Mean of a Population

question 117

Multiple Choice

If we are testing the hypothesis about the mean of a population of paired differences with samples of n₁ = 10,n₂ = 10,the degrees of freedom for the t statistic is ____.

• A)20
• B)9
• C)18
• D)10

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