A veterinarian does research on the causes of enteroliths, stones that develop i

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A veterinarian does research on the causes of enteroliths, stones that develop in the colon of horses. She suspects that feeding alfalfa might be a cause. To investigate that suspicion, she selects five horses that are known to have enteroliths and compares the number of flakes of alfalfa they have eaten over a month with the number of flakes eaten by five horses free of enteroliths. If she calculates a two-sample confidence interval by hand for the difference in the mean number of flakes fed to horses with and without enteroliths the degrees of freedom she should use are:

Explanation / Answer

Degrees of freedom = 5 + 5 - 2 = 8

Option-B) 8

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