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It is argued that foreign graduates are paid higher compared to local graduates in the Malaysian hotel industry, even though they performed the same duties. A researcher conducted a study to test if this is true. He selected 80 newly hired fresh graduates. In the sample, 50 were local graduates while 30 were foreign graduates. He recorded the starting salaries (in RM ‘000) of the 80 newly appointed staff and performed an analysis using SPSS. The following are some of the output from the analysis.

1) State the hypothesis for this study

2) Describe the starting salaries for local and foreign graduates

3) State the procedure that was be used in this analysis

Table 4
Graduate
Мean
Std.
Std. Error
Deviation
Mean
Local
50
3.52
0.78
0.11
Starting salary
Foreign
30
4.34
0.65
0.12
Table 5
Levene's
Test for
t-test for Equality of Means
Equality of
Variances
Sig.
df
Sig.
(2-
tailed)
95% CI for
difference
F
t
Mean
Std.
Differen
Error
Lowe Uppe
се
Differen
r
се
Equal
variances
assumed
1.44
0.148 6.58
78
.000
0.82
0.12
0.57
1.07
Equal variances
not assumed
6.49 76.5
.000
0.82
0.13
0.56
1.09
CI – Confidence Interval

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