conclusion

I failed to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance because the p-value was greater than alpha. Therefore, there is not sufficient evidence to say that the mean ACT score for students who studied is greater than the mean ACT score for students who didn’t study. However, my sample size is too small to make any valid conclusions based on this hypothesis test. I cannot assume that the population is normal by my sample size or by viewing a scatterplot. Redoing this test with a much larger sample size would yield more accurate results.