Cure for the Common Cold? An experimentwas planned to compare the mean time (in

Chapter 9, Problem 21

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Cure for the Common Cold? An experimentwas planned to compare the mean time (in days)required to recover from a common cold for personsgiven a daily dose of 4 milligrams (mg) of vitamin Cversus those who were not given a vitamin supplement.Suppose that 35 adults were randomly selected for each treatment category and that the mean recovery times andstandard deviations for the two groups were as follows:No Vitamin 4 mgSupplement Vitamin CSample Size 35 35Sample Mean 6.9 5.8Sample Standard Deviation 2.9 1.2a. If your research objective is to show that the use ofvitamin C reduces the mean time required torecover from a common cold and its complications,give the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.Is this a one- or a two-tailed test?b. Conduct the statistical test of the null hypothesisin part a and state your conclusion. Test usinga .05.

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