In an experiment, researchers wanted to test whether holiday editions of Sour Patch Kids contained more green candy pieces. Researchers took a sample of 100 regular bags of sour patch kids and 100 holiday editions and recording the mean number of green sour patch kids in each bag.

                         N      x-bar       s

Regular bags    100     8.5       3.6

Holidays bags   100     9.4       1.5

Let μ1 represent the mean number of green candies in regular bags of sour patch kids and let μ2 represent the mean number of green candies in holiday bags of sour patch kids.

Blank #1: Are the samples independent or dependent?

Blank #2: What is the alternative hypothesis? Fill in the blank as appropriate. The null hypothesis is:

H0: Blank #1   μ2

Blank #3: Run you hypothesis test and report the p-value. Round to four decimal places.

Blank #4: Give the test decision for a significance level of 0.05: (reject or do not reject) H0

Blank #5: Evidence _______________(favors or does not favor) that the holiday bags of sour patch kids contain more green candies.

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