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Question2. The paralympic committee of a sitting volleyball club has indicated that the mean score achieved by the sports' members in the past was 85.9. A group of members believes that recent changes to the sitting volleyball court have led to a change in the mean score achieved by the club's members and decides to investigate this belief. A random sample of the scores, xx, of 100 club members was taken and is summarized by x=8350 and (xxˉ)2=15321\sum x=8350 \quad \text { and } \quad \sum(x-\bar{x})^{2}=15321 where xˉ\bar{x} denotes the sample mean. Test, at the 5%5 \% level of significance, the group's belief that the mean score of 85.9 has changed.

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Determine the critical value(s) for a two-tailed test at α=0.05 \alpha = 0.05 with df=99 df = 99 :
- Critical values for t t at α=0.05 \alpha = 0.05 (two-tailed) are approximately ±1.984 \pm 1.984 .
Compare the calculated t t -value to the critical values:
Since 1.93 -1.93 is not less than 1.984 -1.984 and not greater than 1.984 1.984 , we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Conclusion: There is not enough evidence at the 5% 5\% level of significance to conclude that the mean score has changed from 85.9.

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