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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section: Chapter Questions

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In October, the campus bookstore asked a random set of freshmen and seniors how much they had spent on textbooks that semester. The bookstore believes that the two groups spent the same amount. What is an appropriate test value for a z test?

Freshmen
Seniors
Sample size
40
40
Sample mean
$440
$450
Population std. dev.
$57
$68

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Step 1

Hypothesis Testing:

The value of the sample size is more than 30 and the aim is to compare the means of the 2 sample so Z-Test is preferrable.

Two Sample Z-test:

Z score= $\frac{(\bar{x_{1}} - \bar{x_{2}}) - (μ_{1} - μ_{2})}{\sqrt{\frac{σ_{1}^{2}}{n_{1}} + \frac{σ_{2}^{2}}{n_{2}}}}$

where, $\bar{x_{1}}, \bar{x_{2}} a r e t h e s a m p l e m e a n s, μ_{1}, μ_{2} a r e t h e p o p u l a t i o n m e a n s, σ_{1}, σ_{2} a r e t h e P o p u l a t i o n s \tan d a r d d e v i a t i o n s, n_{1}, n_{2} a r e t h e s a m p l e s i z e s .$

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