Listed below are systolic blood pressure measurements (mm hg) taken from the right and left arms of the same woman. assume that the paired sample data is a simple random sample and that the differences have a distribution that is approximately normal. use a 0.10 significance level to test for a difference between the measurements from the two arms. what can be concluded? right arm 152 138 135 139 132 left arm 178 176 176 142 151

There is a significant difference between the two means based on this samples at the 0.10 level of significance.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's call

mean of the systolic pressure from the right hand

mean of the systolic pressure from the left hand

and construct a confidence interval for the difference  

based on the sample of size 5.

The confidence interval whose endpoints are

where

= mean of the sample from the right hand

= mean of the sample from the left hand

= standard deviation of the sample from the right hand

= standard deviation of the sample from the left hand

= t-score corresponding to a level of significance 0.10 or a confidence level 90%

Since the sample is too small we have better use the Student's t-distribution with 4 (sample size -1) degrees of freedom, which is the approximation of the Normal distribution for small samples.

For a 90% confidence level equals 2.132

Let's compute now the means and standard deviations of the samples

From the right hand we have

= 139.2

= 7.66

From the left hand we have

= 164.6

= 16.85

Then our confidence interval would be

finally, the interval is

[-43.05, -7.75]

Since our confidence interval does not contain the zero, we can say there is a significant difference between the two means based on this samples at the 0.10 level of significance.

step-by-step explanation: