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True or False: A statistics professor wanted to test whether the grades on a statistics test were the same for upper and lower classmen. The professor took a random sample size of 10 from each, conducted a test and found out that the variances were equal. For this situation, the professor should use a t test with related samples.
 
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Q. 2

True or False: When you test for differences between the means of two independent populations, you can only use a two-tail test.
 
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Q. 3

True or False: The sample size in each independent sample must be the same if we are to test for differences between the means of two independent populations.
 
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Q. 4

Given the following information, calculate sp2, the pooled sample variance that should be used in the pooled-variance t test.
   s12 = 4 s22 = 6
   n1 = 16 n2 = 25
 
  A) sp2 = 6.00 B) sp2 = 4.00 C) sp2 = 5.00 D) sp2 = 5.23

Q. 5

Given the following information, calculate the degrees of freedom that should be used in the pooled-variance t test.
   s12 = 4 s22 = 6
   n1 = 16 n2 = 25
 
  A) df = 39 B) df = 41 C) df = 25 D) df = 16

Q. 6

In testing for the differences between the means of two independent populations, you assume that the 2 populations each follow a(n) ________ distribution.
 
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Q. 7

In testing for differences between the means of two independent populations, the null hypothesis is
 
  A) H0 : 1 - 2 = 2. B) H0 : 1 - 2 = 0. C) H0 : 1 - 2 < 2. D) H0 : 1 - 2 > 0.

Q. 8

In testing for the differences between the means of 2 independent populations where the variances in each population are unknown but assumed equal, the degrees of freedom are
 
  A) n1 + n2 - 1. B) n - 2. C) n1 + n2 - 2. D) n - 1.

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