A developmental psychologist studies moral awareness in male and female adolescents. Casual observation suggests that girls develop moral awareness earlier than boys, though most published research contains only male participants. A standard measure of moral awareness, on validated using only a male sample, has a mu = 72 and sigma = 18. The psychologist administers the measure to 58 13-year-old girls, whose mean scores was M = 76. Test the hypothesis that the moral awareness of girls is different from males. Conduct a complete hypothesis test using alpha = .01.

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A developmental psychologist studies moral awareness in male and female adolescents.  Casual observation suggests that girls develop moral awareness earlier than boys, though most published research contains only male participants. A standard measure of moral awareness, on validated using only a male sample, has a mu = 72 and sigma = 18.  The psychologist administers the measure to 58 13-year-old girls, whose mean scores was M = 76.  Test the hypothesis that the moral awareness of girls is different from males.  Conduct a complete hypothesis test using alpha = .01.

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