Retention Test Scores A sample of non-English majors at a selected college was used in a

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Retention Test Scores A sample of non-English majors at a selected college was used in a study to see if the student retained more from reading a 19th-century novel or by watching it in DVD form. Each student was assigned one novel to read and a different one to watch, and then they were given a 20-point written quiz on each novel. The test results are shown below. At a 0.05, can it be concluded that the book scores are higher than the DVD scores? Book 90 80 90 75 80 90 84 DVD 85 72 80 80 70 75 80

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Retention Test Scores A sample of non-English majors at a selected college was used in a study to see if the student retained more from reading a 19th-century novel or by watching it in DVD form. Each student was assigned one novel to read and a different one to watch, and then they were given a 20-point written quiz on each novel. The test results are shown below. At a 0.05, can it be concluded that the book scores are higher than the DVD scores? Book 90 80 90 75 80 90 84 DVD 85 72 80 80 70 75 80

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Since the samples are unrelated and the sample sizes are not shown, the statistic that could be used to answer this question is a 2-tailed in

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