UW Economics Department decided to review two current teaching methods and their effects on the microeconomics test scores. A random sample of 16 students, taught in a traditional classroom face- to-face setting, had a mean test score of 77.5 with a standard deviation of 5.7. A random sample of 11 students, taught using interactive online software, had a mean test score of 85.9 with a standard deviation of 6. Do these results support the claim that the mean microeconomics test Score is lower for students taught in traditional classroom setting than it is for students taught using interactive online software? Let µ1 be the mean test score for the students taught in traditional classroom setting and µ2 be the mean test score for students taught using interactive online software. Using a 5% significance level test. From previous work on this subject the Economics Department knows that the population variances are equal and that the two populations are normally distributed.

UW Economics Department decided to review two current teaching methods and their effects on the microeconomics test scores. A random sample of 16 students, taught in a traditional classroom face- to-face setting, had a mean test score of 77.5 with a standard deviation of 5.7. A random sample of 11 students, taught using interactive online software, had a mean test score of 85.9 with a standard deviation of 6. Do these results support the claim that the mean microeconomics test Score is lower for students taught in traditional classroom setting than it is for students taught using interactive online software? Let µ1 be the mean test score for the students taught in traditional classroom setting and µ2 be the mean test score for students taught using interactive online software. Using a 5% significance level test. From previous work on this subject the Economics Department knows that the population variances are equal and that the two populations are normally distributed.

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