The College Board provided comparisons of SAT
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The College Board provided comparisons of SAT scores based on the highest level of education attained by the test taker's parents.A research hypothesis was that students whose parents had attained a higher level of education would on average score higher on the SAT.This data set contains verbal SAT scores for a sample of students whose parents are college graduates and a sample of students whose parents are high school graduates. Use 0.01 as your level of significance.
1. Formulate hypotheses to test the research hypothesis. Let population 1 be the students whose parents are college graduates and let population 2 be students whose parents are high school graduates.
2. Is this an one-tailed or two-tailed test?
3. Use Excel to test your hypotheses. What is the test statistic? 1.803753
4. What is the p-value?
5. What is the critical value?
6. What is your conclusion using 0.01 as the level of significance?
7. Explain your conclusion in the context of the problem (i.e. in terms a non-statistician could understand)
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