Question: Dr. Carson studies the effect that knowledge about healthy food may have on the appearance of obesity. Therefore, 12 high school students were randomly assigned

 Dr. Carson studies the effect that knowledge about healthy food may

Dr. Carson studies the effect that knowledge about healthy food may have on the appearance of obesity. Therefore, 12 high school students were randomly assigned to two groups. One group of 7 students received training about healthy food, while there was no interference with the eating habits of the other group of 5. After 9 weeks, Dr. Carson measured the weight and height of each student in each group. The Body Mass Index, BMI, was calculated as weight/height2 (kg-m'z). BMI BMI without training with training 24.] 23.5 23.8 24.1 22.9 22.2 23.6 23.2 23.4 22.9 23.5 21.9 Sample mean 23.56 23.043 Sample variance 0.203 0.6 11) Dr. Carson wants to know whether or not these data support her thought about a possible training effect on mean BMI. Please help her answer this question statistically (CL = 0.05)

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