A pharmaceutical company claims that their new medication lowers blood pressure. A group of six patients was randomly selected and their systolic blood pressure was measured before and one hour after they had taken the medication (i.e. before > after). See the table below.

For parts (a), (b), (c), round your answers to 2 decimal places.

(a)

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You MUST answer part (a) before filling in the two right columns in the table.

(b) Fill in the table below.PatientBeforeAfterd

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Afterd

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(c) The standard deviation for the differences iss

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At a2.5

%

2.5%

significance level, test the company's claim. Use the t-test for matched pairs and the formula involving the mean of the differences

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, (Note:

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(d) State the null and alternative hypotheses, and identify which one is the claim.

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0

H0

:Select an answer

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H

1

H1

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Which one is the claim:

• H
• 1
• H1
• H
• 0
• H0

For parts (e), (f) use the correct sign for the t-value and test statistic, and round your answers to at least 3 decimal places.

(e) What is the critical t-value (from the Student t-table)?

(f) What is the test statistic (from the formula)?

(g) Is the null hypothesis rejected?

• No
• Yes

(h) Is the claim supported?

• No, there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that their new medication lowers blood pressure.
• Yes, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that their new medication lowers blood pressure.