INDEPENDENT SAMPLES T-TEST #1

When people think about legendary basketball franchises, theyoften think about the New York Knicks. (Well, kind of.) When peoplethink about terrible basketball teams, they often think about theSacramento Kings. Guess what? When you look at their recenthistory, neither team has been particularly great. Here are thenumber of games that each team has won during the last fiveseasons.

Sacramento New York

2014-2015 29 17

2015-2016 33 32

2016-2017 32 31

2017-2018 27 29

2018-2019 39 17

Based on those six seasons, is there a significant differencebetween the Kings and the Knicks in terms of how many games theywon per season?

Here are the formulas: df =

Do an independent-samples t-test. (NOTE: You may use Excel orGoogle to get the standard deviations, but remember that thevariance requires you to square the standard deviation.) Make sureyou include the following in your answer:

A) What is the null hypothesis? What is the alternativehypothesis? (0.5 points)

B) Show all work for how you got your t-statistic. I will allowyou to use Excel or Google to calculate the means and variances!Please do not make your life harder than it has to be! The numberswill get large, but you can round liberally. (3.5 points)

C) What is your critical value (and why), and explain to me whyyou kept or rejected the null. (1 point)