8.
The average growth per day of a certain type lawn seed using standard fertilizer is 2.6
inches per week. You wish to test the effects of a fertilizer on growth rate. You add
fertilizer to several different patches of grass grown from that seed and observe the
following results:
Growth per Week (inches)
1.9
2.0
3.5
4.2
4.0
3.2
2.8
a. Use a two-tailed test with $alpha = .05$. Conduct the four steps for hypothesis testing and label each
step: Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4.
b. Calculate Cohen's $d$.
c. Are the data sufficient to conclude that there is a significant difference between groups? Write
your answer in the form of a sentence.