An instructor is interested in checking whether attending labs improves students' performance on their finals. The instructor asks a TA to investigate this problem. The TA decides to conduct a one-sided two sample t-test. He randomly chooses 30 students in the course who never missed a lab, as well as 25 students from the same course who missed at least 1 lab. Let denote the mean final exam score of all students in the course who never missed a lab. Let denote the mean final exam score of all students in the course who missed at least 1 lab. The hypothesis test can be formulated as vs . The P-value is 0.001.

Part a) What type of study is this?



Part b) What can we conclude from this study? (Select all that apply)



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