Question

An SAT prep course claims to improve the test score of students. The table below shows the scores for seven students the first two times they took the verbal SAT. Before taking the SAT for the second time, each student took a course to try to improve his or her verbal SAT scores. Do these results support the claim that the SAT prep course improves the students' verbal SAT scores? Let d=(verbal SAT scores prior to taking the prep course)−(verbal SAT scores after taking the prep course). Use a significance level of α=0.1 for the test. Assume that the verbal SAT scores are normally distributed for the population of students both before and after taking the SAT prep course. Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Score on first SAT 480 530 520 530 360 380 550 Score on second SAT 530 580 560 610 390 400 610 Step 1 of 5 : State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.

Answer 1

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d = (verbal SAT scores prior to taking the prep course)−(verbal SAT scores after taking the prep course)