A researcher wants to know if male and female college students differ with regard to their GPAs. She randomly gets 16 male and 16 female college students to report their GPAs. The males reported a mean GPA of 3.05 with a SS = 3.75. The females reported a mean GPA of 3.1 with a SS = 2.4.

1. You are going to be conducting an independent samples t-test. What are thetotal degrees of freedomfor this example?
2. You are going to be conducting an independent samples t-test. You will be conducting a two-tailed test with alpha =.05. What is thecritical t-value(s)for this test?
3. You are going to be conducting an independent samples t-test. What is the pooled variance for males and females?
4. You are going to be conducting an independent samples t-test. What is the estimated standard error?
5. What is the differences in sample means?
6. What is the independent samples t-statistic?
7. Make a decision about this test. Was the difference significant?