A researcher claims that the average life span of mice can be extended when the calories in their diet are reduced by approximately 40% from the time they are weaned. The restricted diets are enriched to normal levels by vitamins and protein. Suppose that a sample of 10 mice is fed a normal diet and has an average life span of 32.1 months with a standard deviation of 3.2 months, while a sample of 15 mice is fed the restricted diet and has an average life span of 37.6 months with a standard deviation of 2.8 months. Assume the distributions of life spans for the regular and restricted diets are approximately normal with equal variance. (a) State the appropriate hypotheses to test the researcher’s claim. (b) Conduct the test at the 0.05 level of significance. What do you conclude
A researcher claims that the average life span of mice can be extended when the calories in their diet are reduced by approximately 40% from the time they are weaned. The restricted diets are enriched to normal levels by vitamins and protein. Suppose that a sample of 10 mice is fed a normal diet and has an
average life span of 32.1 months with a standard deviation of 3.2 months, while a sample of 15 mice is fed the restricted diet and has an average life span of 37.6 months with a standard deviation of 2.8 months. Assume the distributions of life spans for the regular and restricted diets are approximately normal with
equal variance.
(a) State the appropriate hypotheses to test the researcher’s claim.
(b) Conduct the test at the 0.05 level of significance. What do you conclude?

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