Question: A private high school admits students based on how they perform on an entrance exam. The mean score on the entrance exam over many years

A private high school admits students based on how they perform on an entrance exam. The mean score on the entrance exam over many years is 70. One company claims to have an effective prep course for the entrance exam. The company is interested in demonstrating the effectiveness of their course. They are able to get a list of all the students signed up to take the entrance exam. They get a random sample of students to take their prep course before taking the entrance exam. Is there evidence that the prep course affected entrance exam results? The results are shown in the table below. Please complete Step 5 in SPSS, not by hand. You will copy and paste the SPSS output in for Step 5. The problem is worth 5 total points, 2 points for step 5 and of a point for steps 1-4 and 6-7.

91 86 80
81 54 93
77 77 80
61 74 86
62 64 80
58 69 94
80 74 59
77 48 75
85 88 86
72 93 76

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Step 5. Copy and paste SPSS output tables here:

Step 6. Circle your decision below:

  1. Reject H0
  2. Fail to reject H0

Step 7. Circle your conclusion below:

  1. Entrance exam scores were not affected by the prep course.
  2. Entrance exam scores were significantly better after taking the prep course.
  3. Entrance exam scores were significantly worse after taking the prep course.

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