To find out whether a new serum will arrest leukemia, 9 mice, all with an advanced stage of the disease, are selected. Five mice receive the treatment and 4 do not. Survival times, in years, from the time the experiment commenced are provided. At the 0.01 level of significance, can the serum be said to be effective? Assume the populations to be normally distributed with equal variances.
Let sample 1 be the mice that received treatment and let sample 2 be the mice that did not receive treatment. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
H0: μ1 - μ2 = 0
H1: μ1 - μ2 > 0
Identify the critical region. Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer box(es) to complete your choice.
(Round to three decimal places as needed.)
A. t <
B. t > or t <
C. t >