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A student set out to see if female students spend more time studying than male students....

A student set out to see if female students spend more time studying than male students. He randomly surveyed 30 females and 30 males and asked them how much time they spend studying, on average, per day. The data is obtained is shown below.

H0: mean study time for females = mean study time for males

H1: mean study time for females > mean study time for males

  1. Are there any assumptions that we must make about the two populations (female students / male students) before we proceed?

# of hours spent studying

female counts

male counts

1

6

10

2

7

6

3

7

7

4

2

5

5

3

1

6

3

0

7

2

1

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See the difference column given in above table.

The most important assumption in the difference follows Normal Distribution.

Or the population from which samples are drawn is normally distributed.

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