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1250 1020 1010 1040 840 870 1130 730 850 730 1010 880 1020 950 900 800 840 1030 790 QUES TION 9 A scientist would like to know if identical twins have a difference in their standardized test scores. Below is a list of the SAT scores for 10 sets of twins First-born twin Second-born twin 1220 1020 1250 010 840 1130 870 730 880 950 800 10 010 900 840 For the test of HO H2-1 0 and Ha-H2-1 > 0 using paired t-test, what is the p value? 026 o 0.18 0.08 0.04 QUESTION 10 A scientist would like to know if identical twins have a difference in their standardized test scores. Below is a list of the SAT scores for 10 sets of twins. First-born twinSecond-born twin 1250 1010 840 1130 1220 040 870 730 880 950 800 010 900 At the significance level of 0.05, can we claim that the mean of second-born twins 's SAT score is higher than the first-born twins? O No O Yes

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Paired T hypothesis test:
D = 1 - 2 : Mean of the difference between var17 and var16
H0 : D = 0
HA : D > 0
Hypothesis test results:

Hence,

9) p - value = 0.26

Option A is correct.

10) No

Option A is correct.

Difference Mean Std. Err. DF T-Stat P-value var17 - var16 37 54.671748 9 0.67676637 0.2578
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