A local college has run a study on their students' attitude toward the use of public transportation (i.e., busses, taxis, etc.).One question they are interested in investigating is the students' level of agreement with the statement, "having to wait for the bus coming home from school would take too much time."In particular, they would like to determine if a difference exists between the mean attitude of first year students (status = 1) and graduating students (status = 5).They have collected data on this issue using the following scale:

Strongly Disagree1234567Strongly Agree

Listed below is the SPSS Output for the above analysis:

Group Statistics

status

N

Mean

Std. Deviation

Std. Error Mean

time

1.00

15

4.7333

1.48645

.38380

5.00

62

3.6774

1.69642

.21545

t-test for Equality of Means

t

df

Sig. (2-tailed)

Mean Difference

Std. Error Difference

95% Confidence Interval of the Difference

Lower

Upper

time

Equal variances assumed

2.212

75

.030

1.05591

.47743

.10482

2.00701

Equal variances not assumed

2.399

23.674

.025

1.05591

.44013

.14686

1.96497

What are the null and alternative hypotheses?Using a 95% confidence interval, what conclusions can you make regarding this analysis?Why?Be sure to provide a complete description of the results.

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