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lindiwe · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

A pharmaceutical company wants to determine whether its new antianxiety medication has any effect on resting pulse rate.

They will use a paired sample to determine whether the mean resting pulse rate for adults not taking the antianxiety medication differs from the mean resting pulse rate for adults who are taking the antianxiety medication. Identify the variable for the proposed hypothesis test.
A) Amount of medication taken
B) Resting pulse rate
C) Anxiety level
D) Difference between mean resting pulse rate for those not on the medication and the mean resting pulse rate for those on the medication

Question 2

A random variable is

A) a numerical measure of the outcome of a probability experiment.
B) a qualitative attribute of a population.
C) the variable for which an algebraic equation is solved.
D) generated by a random number table.