Number of mothers guessing correctly 0 Probability 0.002 0.018 0.070 0.164 0.246

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Number of mothers guessing correctly 0 Probability 0.002 0.018 0.070 0.164 0.246 0.246 0.164 0.070 0.018 0.002 2 4 5 6 8 9 Porter and Moore (1981) gave new T-shirts to children of 9 mothers. Each child were used during the study. Each mother was then given the shirt of her child and that of another, randomly chosen Can parents distinguish their own children by smell alone? To investigate, wore his or her shirt to bed for three consecutive nights. During the day, from waking until bedtime, the shirts were bags. No scented soaps or perfumes child and asked to identify her own child's shirt by smell Eight of nine mothers identfied their children correctly Using the null distribution table provided, and a two-sided test, calculate the P-value to determine whether the statement "We reject the null hypothesis" is true or O True kept in individually sealed plastic O False

Explanation / Answer

P - value is

P(X>8) = P(X=9) = 0.002 < 0.05

Since the p-value is less than 0.05, we reject Ho.

So the statement is true

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