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A university department is deciding which of the research proposals to support. Eight members of staff...

A university department is deciding which of the research proposals to support. Eight members of staff were asked to read the proposals and to award each of them a mark out of 100. Following are the marks awarded to the proposals.

Staff Proposal 1 Proposal 2
1 53 75
2 46 67
3 60 69
4 53 51
5 66 76
6 59 59
7 52 65
8 67 68

Determine a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the mean marks awarded to the two proposals.

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since sample subject is used in both groups, we will use paired t test

for 95% CI; and 7 degree of freedom, value of t= 2.365
therefore confidence interval=sample mean -/+ t*std error
margin of errror          =t*std error=             7.712195
lower confidence limit                     = -16.96
upper confidence limit                    = -1.54
from above 95% confidence interval for mean difference in the mean marks awarded =(-16.96 to -1.54)

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