A farmer uses a lot of fertilizer to grow his crops. The farmer’s manager thinks fertilizer products from distributor A contain more of the nitrogen that his plants need than distributor B’s fertilizer does. He takes two independent samples of four batches of fertilizer from each distributor and measures the amount of nitrogen in each batch. Fertilizer from distributor A contained 23 pounds per batch and fertilizer from distributor B contained 18 pounds per batch. Suppose the population standard deviation for distributor A and distributor B is four pounds per batch and five pounds per batch, respectively. Assume the distribution of nitrogen in fertilizer is normally distributed. Let µ1 and µ2 represent the average amount of nitrogen per batch for fertilizers A and B, respectively. Which of the following is an appropriate p-value?

1) Malaria is a disease that destroys red blood cells (the parasite invades red blood cells, multiplies, and then infects more red blood cells). In a recent study (Kotepul, et al., 2015) looking at various blood counts, the authors found the following results. Results are in billion red blood cells / cubic mm. Note that I have deliberately modified these results (do not use R): n ̄y s Low infection 527 4.16 2.23 High infection 157 4.51 2.34 Is there a difference in red blood cell count?(Hint: please think about this before you just start working on the problem!)

You work for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. You have gotten word that a drug manufacturing is not accurately reporting the contents of their liquid cold medication. Under Federal Regulations, "Variations from stated quantity of contents shall not be unreasonably large" (see section q of the regulation by clicking here).The company that produces the cold medication is claiming that each bottle contains 355 milliliters of cold medication, which is about 12 fluid ounces. In order to determine if they are accurate in their reporting, you decide to randomly select 20 different bottles of cold medication and measure the amount of cold medication in each bottle (in milliliters). The results of each sample are shown below. Bottle Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Milliliters 352 341 358 351 358 353 345 341 354 343   Bottle Number 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Milliliters 345 344 344 342 355 341 352 359 349 355 a) Use the data shown above to construct a 93% confidence interval…

Rivers in North Carolina contain small concentrations of mercury that can accumulate in fish over their lifetimes. The concentration of mercury in fish tissue can be obtained by catching fish and sending samples to a lab for analysis. A study was conducted on fish from the Waccamaw and Lumber Rivers to investigate mercury levels in tissues of largemouth bass. At several stations along each river a group of fish were caught, weighed and measured; in addition a filet from each fish was sent to a lab so that the tissue concentration of mercury could be determined. In all, 171 fish were caught at 15 different research stations along the Waccamaw and Lumber Rivers. Data from fish caught at one of these stations is shown in the followinng table: length weight 1616 47.0 48.7 1862 2855 55.7 45.2 1199 1320 44.7 1225 43.8 870 38.5 1455 45.8 1220 44.0 1033 40.4 Compute the correlation between length and weight for these fish. (Assume the correlation conditions have been satisfied and round your…