Suppose that you are responsible for making arrangements for a business convention and that you have been charged with choosing a city for the convention that has the least expensive hotel rooms. You have narrowed your choices to Atlanta and Houston. The file named Hotel contains samples of prices for rooms in Atlanta and Houston that are consistent with a SmartMoney survey conducted by Smith Travel Research. Because considerable historical data on the prices of rooms in both cities are available, the population standard deviations for the prices can be assumed to be $20 in Atlanta and $25 in Houston. Based on the sample data, can you conclude that the mean price of a hotel room in Atlanta is lower than one in Houston? State the hypotheses. (Let u, = mean hotel price in Atlanta and let µ, = mean hotel price in Houston.) Ho: Hy - Hz < 0 Hgi Hy- Hz z O Hoi Hq - Hz#0 Hgi Hq- Hz = 0 Hoi Hy - Hz> 0 Hgi Hq - Hz = 0 Hoi Hq- Hz = 0 H3i Hq - H2 #0 Hoi Hy - Hz z O Hgi Hy- Hz
Inverse Normal Distribution
The method used for finding the corresponding z-critical value in a normal distribution using the known probability is said to be an inverse normal distribution. The inverse normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with a family of two parameters.
Mean, Median, Mode
It is a descriptive summary of a data set. It can be defined by using some of the measures. The central tendencies do not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset. However, they give a summary of the data set. The central tendency or measure of central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Z-Scores
A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
![Suppose that you are responsible for making arrangements for a business convention and that you have been charged with choosing a city for the convention that has the least expensive hotel rooms.
You have narrowed your choices to Atlanta and Houston. The file named Hotel contains samples of prices for rooms in Atlanta and Houston that are consistent with a SmartMoney survey conducted by
Smith Travel Research. Because considerable historical data on the prices of rooms in both cities are available, the population standard deviations for the prices can be assumed to be $20 in Atlanta and
$25 in Houston. Based on the sample data, can you conclude that the mean price of a hotel room in Atlanta is lower than one in Houston?
State the hypotheses. (Let µ 1
= mean hotel price in Atlanta and let u, = mean hotel price in Houston.)
Hoi H1 - Hz< O
Ha: H1 - H2 z
Hoi Hy- H2 # 0
Ha: H1 - H2 = 0
Hoi H1- Mz>0
Ha: H1 - 42 = 0
Hoi H1- Hz =
H3: H1 - H2 # 0
Ho: H1 - H2 z0
Ha: H1 - H2< 0
Calculate the test statistic. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
Calculate the p-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
p-value :
What is your conclusion?
Reject Ho. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that the mean price of a hotel room in Atlanta is lower than the mean price of a hotel room in Houston.
Do not reject Ho. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that the mean price of a hotel room in Atlanta is lower than the mean price of a hotel room in Houston.
Reject Ho.
There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean price of a hotel room in Atlanta is lower than the mean price of a hotel room in Houston.
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