Solved: Paired or unpaired? In each of the following settings, decide whether you should

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Paired or unpaired? In each of the following settings, decide whether you should use paired t procedures or two-sample t procedures to perform inference. Explain your choice.39 (a) To test the wear characteristics of two tire brands, A and B, each brand of tire is randomly assigned to 50 cars of the same make and model. (b) To test the effect of background music on productivity, factory workers are observed. For one month, each subject works without music. For another month, the subject works while listening to music on an MP3 player. The month in which each subject listens to music is determined by a coin toss. (c) A study was designed to compare the effectiveness of two weight-reducing diets. Fifty obese women who volunteered to participate were randomly assigned into two equal-sized groups. One group used Diet A and the other used Diet B. The weight of each