Chapter 13, Problem 43CRE

Ages of Students Suppose you have the ages of a random sample of 15 student athletes at your school and the ages of a random sample of 15 students who are not athletes. You want to determine whether the typical student athlete is younger than the typical nonathlete. Which test(s) can be used for each situation below?

a. The population distribution of ages is Normal for both groups.

b. The population distribution of ages for one or both groups is right-skewed.