A group of psychologists was interested in knowing whether living environment had any effect on a student's grade point average (GPA). They took a set of twins and randomly assigned one sibling of the twins to live in an urban area and the other to live in a rural area After one year, they computed the GPAs for the twins and looked at the differences. Then they calculated the test statistic, and the P-value was found to be between 0.20 and 0.25. With a 0.05 level of significance, we should H0, and conclude that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that a difference exists between the mean GPAs of the two living environments.

Accept H0

Explanation:

A group of psychologists was interested in knowing whether living environment had any effect on a student's grade point average (GPA). They took a set of twins and randomly assigned one sibling of the twins to live in an urban area and the other to live in a rural area After one year, they computed the GPAs for the twins and looked at the differences. Then they calculated the test statistic, and the P-value was found to be between 0.20 and 0.25. With a 0.05 level of significance, we should accept H0, and conclude that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that a difference exists between the mean GPAs of the two living environments.

A p value that is less than or equal to 0.05 suggest strong evidence against the null hypothesis, so you reject the null hypothesis. A p-value greater than 0.05 indicates weak evidence against the null hypothesis, so you accept the null hypothesis. In this study, the null hypothesis will be "living environment has no effect on a student's grade point average (GPA)", and since the p value obtained from the study is greater than 0.05, we accept the null hypothesis.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)