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A school psychologist wishes to determine whether a newanti-smoking film actually reduces the daily consumption ofcigarettes by teenage smokers. The mean daily cigarette consumptionis calculated for each of eight teenage smokers during the monthbefore and the month after the film presentation, with thefollowing results: MEAN DAILY CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION

SMOKER NUMBER BEFORE FILM (X1) AFTER FILM (X2)

1 28 26

2 29 27

3 31 32

4 44    44

5 35 35

6 20 16

7 50 47

8 25 23

A) Is there a significant difference in the number of cigarettessmoked before the film as compared to the number of cigarettessmoked after the film?

B) What does this NOT necessarily mean?

C) What might be done to improve the design of thisexperiment?

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sample 1 is before X1 and sample 2 is after X2From the sample data it is found that the corresponding samplemeans areX1 3275 and X2 3125Also the provided sample standard deviations ares19939 and s2    See Answer
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