When the necessary conditions are met, a two-tailed test is being conducted to test the difference between two population means, but your statistical software provides only a one-tail area of .036 as part of its output. The p-value for this test will be:
A) 0.018
B) 0.009
C) 0.072
D) 0.928
E) 0.964

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The p-value for a two-tailed test is twice the one-tail area provided by the statistical software, so 2 * 0.036 = 0.072.

When the Necessary Conditions Are Met, a Two-Tailed Test Is