Hypothesis Testing Notes Step 3

A test statistic for a hypothesis test is calculated to be t = 2.391 with 17 degrees of freedom. Find the t values that surround the test statistic.

The smaller value is

A test statistic for a hypothesis test is calculated to be t = 2.391 with 17 degrees of freedom. Find the t values that surround the test statistic.

The larger t value is

A test statistic, t, with 36 degrees of freedom is found to be between 2.719 and 2.990. Find the P-value.

• 0.0025 < P < 0.005

• 0.005 < P < 0.01

• 0.0001 < P < 0.0025