In: Statistics and Probability
Samples of both surface soil and subsoil were taken from eight randomly selected agricultural locations in a particular county. Soil was analyzed to determine both surface PH and subsoil PH, with the results shown in the following table.
At the 5% level of significance, does the data indicate that the mean pH of topsoil is lower than the mean pH of subsoil? Conduct the hypothesis test.
Location | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Surface PH | 6.55 | 5.98 | 5.59 | 6.17 | 5.92 | 6.18 | 6.43 | 5.68 |
Subsoil PH | 6.78 | 6.14 | 5.8 | 5.91 | 6.1 | 6.01 | 6.18 | 5.88 |