A dairy scientist is testing a new feed additive. She chooses 13 cows at random from...

A dairy scientist is testing a new feed additive. She chooses 13 cows at random from a large population. She randomly assigns nold = 8 to the old diet and nnew = 5 to a new diet including the additive. The cows are housed in 13 widely separated pens. After two weeks, she milks each cow and records the milk produced in pounds:

Old Diet: 43, 51, 44, 47, 38, 46, 40, 35 New Diet: 47, 75, 85, 100, 58

Let μnew and μold be the population mean milk productions for the new and old diets, respectively. She wishes to test H0 : μnew − μold = 0 against HA : μnew − μold ̸= 0 using α = 0.05.

(a) Graph the data as you see fit. Why did you choose the graph(s) that you did and what does it (do they) tell you?

(b) Choose a test appropriate for the hypotheses and justify your choice based on your answer to part (a). Then perform the test by computing a p-value, and making a reject or not reject decision. Do this without R and show your work. (Also do it with R, if you wish, to check your work). Finally, state your conclusion in the context of the problem.

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