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Question: Freshman 15, revisited. In Exercise you thought about how to design a study to see if it's true that students tend to gain weight during their first year in college. Well, Cornell Professor of Nutrition David Levitsky did just that. He recruited students from two large sections of an introductory health course. Although they were volunteers, they appeared to match the rest of the freshman class in terms of demographic variables such as sex and ethnicity. The students were weighed during the first week of the semester, then again 12 weeks later. Based on Professor Levitsky's data, estimate the mean weight gain in first-semester freshmen and comment on the "freshman 15." (Weights are in pounds.)

Exercise: Freshman 15? Many people believe that students gain weight as freshmen. Suppose we plan to conduct a study to see if this is true.

a) Describe a study design that would require a matched-pairs t procedure to analyze the results.

b) Describe a study design that would require a two sample t procedure to analyze the results.