A manager wishes to see if the time (in minutes) it takes for their workers to complete a certain task will change when they are allowed to wear ear buds at work. A random sample of 8 workers' times were collected before and after wearing ear buds. Assume the data is normally distributed.
Perform a Matched-Pairs hypothesis test for the claim that the time to complete the task has changed at a significance level of .
If you wish to copy this data to a spreadsheet or StatCrunch, you may find it useful to first copy it to Notepad, in order to remove any formatting.
Round answers to 4 decimal places.
For the context of this problem, - _Before,
where the first data set represents "after" and the second data set represents "before".
This is the sample data:
After | Before |
---|---|
52.7 | 49.2 |
39.7 | 48.5 |
48.2 | 42.8 |
43.5 | 40.7 |
38.4 | 51.4 |
57.2 | 59.6 |
68.3 | 71.7 |
52.8 | 51 |
What is the mean difference for this sample?
Mean difference =
What is the significance level for this sample?
Significance level =
What is the P-value for this test?
P-value =
This P-value leads to a decision to...
As such, the final conclusion is that...