QuestionEssays A professor wishes to see if two groups of students' essays differ in lengths, that is, the number of words in each essay. The professor randomly selects 12 essays from a group of students who are science majors and 10 essays from a group of humanities majors to compare. The data are shown. At , can it be concluded that there is a difference in the lengths of the essays between the two groups?
Science majors
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2262 & 3162 & 2450 & 3533 & 2725 & 1776 & 2830 & 3765 & 3357 & 2356 & 3887 & 3416
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Humanities majors
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Use for the mean of science majors and for the mean of humanities majors. Assume the populations are normally distributed, and that the variances are unequal.
Part 1 of 5
(a) State the hypotheses and identify the claim with the correct hypothesis.
This hypothesis test is a two-tailed test.
Part 2 of 5
(b) Find the critical value. Round the answer(s) to at least three decimal places. If there is more than one critical value, separate them with commas.
Critical value(s):
Part:
Part 3 of 5
(c) Compute the test value. Round your answer to at least three decimal places.
Studdy Solution
Compute the test statistic using the formula for unequal variances:
Once you have calculated the means and standard deviations, plug them into the formula to find the test statistic .
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