A medical researcher compared the variances in birth weights for five randomly chosen babies of each gender,with the MegaStat results shown below. The population variances:
A) may be assumed equal at any customary $\alpha$.
B) should be assumed unequal at any customary $\alpha$.
C) are not relevant to this paired t-test.

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The population variances are not relevant to this paired t-test because the test is comparing the variances of the two groups, not the variances of the individual observations.

A Medical Researcher Compared the Variances in Birth Weights for Five