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A study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture in reducing pain. Results for 6 randomly selected subjects are given in the accompanying table (the values are before and after acupuncture)
subjects | A | B | C | D | E | F |
before | 6.7 | 6.6 | 8.9 | 10.4 | 8.2 | 6.5 |
after | 6.9 | 3.8 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 6.2 |
A) Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that acupuncture has no effect in reducing pain? Use cl: 0.05
b) construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean of the "before-after" differences.