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A veterinarian does research on the causes of enteroliths, stones that develop in the colon of horses. She suspects that feeding alfalfa might be a cause. To investigate that suspicion, she selects five horses that are known to have enteroliths and compares the number of flakes of alfalfa they have eaten over a month with the number of flakes eaten by five horses free of enteroliths. If she calculates a two-sample confidence interval by hand for the difference in the mean number of flakes fed to horses with and without enteroliths the degrees of freedom she should use are:

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Answer: 8

Explanation:

The degree of freedom for t-distribution of testing the differnce between the two population mean is given by :-


df= n_1+n_2-2

, where
n_1 = Size of first sample.


n_1 = Size of second sample.

As per given ,

Veterinarian selects five horses that are known to have enteroliths and compares the number of flakes of alfalfa they have eaten over a month with the number of flakes eaten by five horses free of enteroliths.

i.e.
n_1=5 and
n_2=5

Now , If she calculates a two-sample confidence interval by hand for the difference in the mean number of flakes fed to horses with and without enteroliths the degrees of freedom she should use are


df= 5+5-2=8

Hence, the correct answer is 8.

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