Basic Business Statistics
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ISBN: 9780134684840
Author: BERENSON, Mark L., Levine, David M., Szabat, Kathryn A.
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter 12, Problem 38PS
The management of a hotel has the business objective of increasing the return rate for hotel guests. One aspect of first impressions by guests relates to the time it takes to deliver a guest’s luggage to the room after check-in to the hotel. A random sample of 20 deliveries on a particular day were selected in Wing A of the hotel, and a random sample of 20 deliveries were selected in Wing B. Delivery times were collected and stored in Luggage.
a. Is there evidence of a difference in the
b. Compare the results of (a) with those of Problem 10.65 on page 384.
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