- 21-25. A swimming school claimed
that the average seven-year-old would be able to swim across an
Olympic-sized pool in less than 2 minutes after taking lessons from
their instructors. To test this claim, a consumer psychologist
arranged for eight randomly selected seven-year-old children to
take lessons at the school and recorded how long it took each child
to swim across a pool at the end of the lessons. The average time
(in seconds) was a 95 with a sum of squares of 4200. What
conclusion would the psychologist draw following a two-tailed
t test for a single sample using 120 seconds as the
"known" population mean and the .05 significance level. (10 points
total)
21. What is the degrees of freedom?
22. What is the estimated standard deviation?
23. What is the cutoff score (critical values) on the t
distribution?
24. What is the t statistic?
25. Is the test significant and summarize the results of this
study (No APA style needed)?