document.write( "Question 375517: An investigator chooses 5 rats random from the colony of rats maintained by the psychology department of the university. After special training to delay response, the reaction times in tenths of seconds to a signal were recorded and found to be “5, 3, 6, 4, 10”. Test the hypothesis that the mean reaction time for rats of this type is 4 tenths of a second.
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document.write( "Hi,
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document.write( "*Note: Formula for the test statistic is 
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document.write( "In this case n = 5
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document.write( "Entering the Data into an Excel worksheet column and applying the Data Analysis tool
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document.write( "found  and  for this sampling.
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document.write( " = -.02/.086 = -.2326
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document.write( "P(t < -.2326) = .4080 Or 40.80%
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document.write( "The test results would show that this sampling is well within the average
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document.write( "of mu = .4sec \n" );
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