Chapter 10: Q.6 (page 663)
Conditions Explain why it is not safe to use the methods of this chapter to perform inference in each of the following settings.
(a) Lyme disease is spread in the northeastern United States by infected ticks. The ticks are infected mainly by feeding on mice, so more mice result in more infected ticks. The mouse population in turn rises and falls with the abundance of acorns, their favored food. Experimenters studied two similar forest areas in a year when the acorn crop failed. They added hundreds of thousands of acorns to one area to imitate an abundant acorn crop, while leaving the other area untouched.
The next spring, of the mice trapped in the first area were in breeding condition, versus of the mice trapped in the second area.50
(b) Who texts more鈥攎ales or females? For their final project, a group of AP Statistics students investigated their belief that females text more than males. They asked a random sample of 蝉迟耻诲别苍迟蝉鈥males and females鈥攆rom their school to record the number of text messages sent and received over a two-day period. Boxplots of their data are shown below

Short Answer
a). Normal requirement has not been met.
b). Normal requirement is not met.

