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Listed below are body mass indices (BMI) of a sample of college students. The BMI of each student was measured in September and April of the freshman year. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the mean change in BMI for all students is equal to 0. Does BMI appear to change during freshman year? Assume that the paired sample data is a simple random sample and that the differences have a distribution that is approximately normal. April BMI 17.44 22.82 22.88 18.53 20.76 September BMI 19.70 22.40 24.24 18.37 20.27 Since the test statistic ▼ does not fall falls in the critical region, ▼ fail to reject reject the null hypothesis. There ▼ is not is sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that for the population of students, the mean change in BMI from September to April is equal to 0.