One of our researchers wishes to determine whether people with high blood pressure can reduce their systolic blood pressure by taking a new drug we have developed. The sample data is shown below, where represents the mean blood pressure of the treatment group and represents the mean for the control group.Use a significance level of 0.01 and the critical value method to test the claim that the drug reduces the blood pressure.We do not know the values of the population standard deviations.

Treatment Group

Control Group

n₁

78

n₂

70

186.7 (x1)

201.9(x2)

s₁

38.5

s₂

39.8

1.Write the hypotheses in symbolic form, determine if the test is right-tailed, left-tailed, or two tailed and explain why.

Answer and Explanation