Lactation promotes a temporary loss of bone mass to provide adequate amounts of calcium for milk production. A paper gave the following data on total body bone mineral content (TBBMC) (g) for a sample both during lactation (L) and in the postweaning period (P). Subject
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L 1928 2549 2825 1924 1628 2175 2114 2621 1843 2541
P 2126 2885 2895 1942 1750 2184 2164 2626 2006 2627

Required:
a. Does data suggest that true average total body bone mineral content during postweaning exceeds that during lactation by more than 25 g? State and test the appropriate hypotheses using a significance level of 0.05. [Note: The appropriate normal probability plot shows some curvature but not enough to cast substantial doubt on a normality assumption.]

b. Calculate a lower confidence bound using a 95% confidence level for the true average difference between TBBMC during postweaning and lactation.