Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 51

For Problems 9-17 assume that the distribution of differences d is mound-shaped and symmetrical.
Please provide the following information for Problems 9-17.
(a) What is the level of significance State the null and alternate hypotheses. Will you use a left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed test
(b) Check Requirements What sampling distribution will you use What assumptions are you making Compute the value of the sample test statistic.
(c) Find (or estimate) the P -value. Sketch the sampling distribution and show the area corresponding to the P -value.
(d) Based on your answers in parts (a)-(c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis Are the data statistically significant at level
(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.
In these problems, assume that the distribution of differences is approximately normal.
Note: For degrees of freedom d.f. not in the Student's t table, use the closest d.f. that is smaller. In some situations, this choice of d.f. may increase the P -value by a small amount and therefore produce a slightly more "conservative" answer.
Golf: Tournaments Do professional golfers play better in their first round Let row B represent the score in the fourth (and final) round, and let row A represent the score in the first round of a professional golf tournament. A random sample of finalists in the British Open gave the following data for their first and last rounds in the tournament (Source: Golf Almanac ).

Do the data indicate that the population mean score on the last round is higher than that on the first Use a 5% level of significance.