You are part of a research team studying the kit fox population in the San Joaquin Valley You observe that the abundance of

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You are part of a research team studying the kit fox population in the San Joaquin Valley You observe that the abundance of foxes varies depending on the presence of coyotes their main predator Your research team designs an experiment to compare the abundance of kit foxes for areas with and without coyotes n 10 sampling areas per area type Below are the data the team recorded for kit fox abundance for each area Provide your answers below in either blue red or purple to make your responses obvious to your instructor Submit this page to the lab assignment on Canvas Coyote 16 10 15 13 7 14 15 9 12 17 No coyote 20 17 25 27 22 19 26 30 24 25 1 What is the independent variable 0 5 pt 2 What is the dependent variable 0 5 pt 3 What are the null and alternate hypotheses 1 pt 4 Create an appropriately formatted descriptive statistics table as discussed in class Your table should include the mean standard deviation standard error of the mean and the lower and upper 95 confidence intervals for each habitat Do NOT include any other descriptive statistics in your table Your table cannot be handwritten 2 pt 5 Create an appropriately formatted comparison of means figure with caption in Excel as discussed in class Use 3 significant figures for decimal values Make sure to include 95 confidence intervals for error bars for each mean symbol 2 pt 6 Conduct a t test and report the results to determine if the groups of kit foxes are different 3 pt 7 Draw a conclusion based on your results 1 pt

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