Adam tabulated the values for the average speed on each day of his road trip as 60.5, 63.2, 54.7, 51.6, 72.3, 70.7, 67.2, and 65.4 mph. If Adam wanted to construct a one-sample t-statistic, what would the value for the degrees of freedom be?

7

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the following data:

Average speed : 60.5, 63.2, 54.7, 51.6, 72.3, 70.7, 67.2, and 65.4

To construct a one-sample t - statistic, the value of the degree of freedom will be ;

In a one sample test of known mean, if the number of observations are 4, one can choose to vary at most three of the observations and still obtain the mean, that is the 4th observation must remain fixed.

Degree of freedom = Number of observations (n) - 1. This is the maximum number of independent variables which can be varied.

Nunber of observations or sample size in the data above is 8

Hence,

Degree of freedom = (8 - 1) = 7

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