A researcher was interested in seeing if there was a significant difference between men and women in terms of the average number of hours that they relax on the weekend.So, she collected data from two random samples (below).

Conduct an independent samples (2-sample) t-test, using = .01

Men

M=8.62

S2=5.29

n=25

Women

M=6.7

S2=9.9

n=25

STEP 1State your hypotheses in bothwords and symbols.Be sure to clearly label your null and alternative hypotheses. (4 points).

In words:

In symbols:

STEP 2Find the critical value. (1 point)

STEP 3Compute the appropriate test-statistic.Show your work(4 points)

STEP 4Evaluate the null hypothesis(1point)

STEP 5What is your conclusion? ( 1point)