Three groups of adult women engaged in a 12-week exercise program designed to help them lose weight

Group A participated in aerobic dance five times weekly, Group B did resistance weight training five times weekly, and Group C did aerobic dance three times weekly and resistance weight training twice a week. At the start and the end of the exercise program, the exercise leader weighed the participants and recorded their weights. To ascertain if there were statistically significant differences in weight loss between the pre-test and post-test and between the three groups, the appropriate statistical test would be:
A) t-test for independent samples.
B) t-test for dependent samples.
C) simple analysis of variance.
D) two-way analysis of variance.
E) multiple regression analysis.


D

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