Fishing: Shore or Boat? Is fi shing better from a boat or from the shore? Pyramid Lake
Question:
Fishing: Shore or Boat? Is fi shing better from a boat or from the shore?
Pyramid Lake is located on the Paiute Indian Nation in Nevada. Presidents, movie stars, and people who just want to catch fi sh go to Pyramid Lake for really large cutthroat trout. Let row B represent hours per fi sh caught fi shing from the shore, and let row A represent hours per fi sh caught using a boat.
The following data are paired by month from October through April (Source:
Pyramid Lake Fisheries, Paiute Reservation, Nevada):
Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April B: Shore 1.6 1.8 2.0 3.2 3.9 3.6 3.3 A: Boat 1.5 1.4 1.6 2.2 3.3 3.0 3.8 Use a 1% level of signifi cance to test if there is a difference in the population mean hours per fi sh caught using a boat compared with fi shing from the shore.
Step by Step Answer:
Understanding Basic Statistics
ISBN: 9781305548893
7th Edition
Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase