Ancient air The composition of the earths atmosphere may have changed over time. To try

Chapter 9, Problem 67

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Ancient air The composition of the earth’s atmosphere may have changed over time. To try to discover the nature of the atmosphere long ago, we can examine the gas in bubbles inside ancient amber. Amber is tree resin that has hardened and been trapped in rocks. The gas in bubbles within amber should be a sample of the atmosphere at the time the amber was formed. Measurements on 9 specimens of amber from the late Cretaceous era (75 to 95 million years ago) give these percents of nitrogen.

63.4         65.0         64.4         63.3         54.8         64.5         60.8         49.1         51.0

Explain why we should not carry out a one-sample t test in this setting.

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QUESTION:

Ancient air The composition of the earth’s atmosphere may have changed over time. To try to discover the nature of the atmosphere long ago, we can examine the gas in bubbles inside ancient amber. Amber is tree resin that has hardened and been trapped in rocks. The gas in bubbles within amber should be a sample of the atmosphere at the time the amber was formed. Measurements on 9 specimens of amber from the late Cretaceous era (75 to 95 million years ago) give these percents of nitrogen.

63.4         65.0         64.4         63.3         54.8         64.5         60.8         49.1         51.0

Explain why we should not carry out a one-sample t test in this setting.

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The data given for the percentages of nitrogen found is

  63.4 65.0 64.4 63.3 54.8 64.5 60.8 49.1 51.0

The number of samples is 9

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