Breast feeding sometimes results in a temporary loss of bone

Breast feeding sometimes results in a temporary loss of bone mass as calcium is depleted in the mother\'s body to provide for milk production. An investigation gave the following data on total body bone mineral content (g) for a sample of mothers both during breast feeding (B) and in the postweaning period (P).

Do the data suggest that true average total body bone mineral content during postweaning exceeds that during breast feeding by more than 25 g? State and test the appropriate hypotheses using a significance level of 0.05. (Use a statistical computer package to calculate the P-value. Use _{P B}. Round your test statistic to two decimal places and the P-value to three decimal places.)

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