Consider urban ecologists who are interested in whether the presence of high-voltage power lines influences the number of eggs laid by birds nearby. They plan to conduct a two-sample t-test and will assume that the population variances are equal. Their data is as follows:

Near (group 1): mean = 6.1, SD = 0.35,n= 9

Far (group 2): mean = 5.8, SD = 0.30,n= 12

Based on thet-test statistic, and using your table of criticalt-values, which of the followingP-value ranges matches the one for thet-value?

a) 0.05 <p

b) 0.02 <p< 0.05

c) <p< 0.02

d) p< 0.01