BIOL 300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confidence Interval, Null Hypothesis, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

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For all statistical tests, make sure that you clearly state your hypotheses. Some questions have a box for the final answer. Please put the final answer in this box, and show all work in the other space provided, including the back of the page if necessary. By taking this test and putting your name above, you are declaring that your answers on this test are all your own work. Make sure that your copy of the test includes 6 pages, including this one. 2: in the northern hemisphere, dolphins swim predominantly in a counter-clockwise direction while sleeping. A group of researchers with nothing better to do wanted to know whether the same was true for dolphins in the southern hemisphere. They watched eight sleeping dolphins, and the variable that they recorded was the percentage of time that the dolphins swam clockwise. Assume that this is a random sample, and that this variable has a normal distribution.