A researcher wants to know if student scores on an online exam differ from scores of students who take a paper-and-pencil version of the exam. How could the researcher design a study to test this (briefly explain what research design would be needed and how they might collect the data)? What type of t-test would be most appropriate in this analysis and why? What are the null and alternative hypotheses that would be tested?
Ans:
We will use two sample t test.


Where
is population mean score of students who take online exam.
Where
is population mean score of students who take a paper-and-pencil
version of the exam.
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