TABLE 10-14
a Problem with a Telephone Line That Prevents $$\text { t-Test: Two- Sample Assuming Unequal Variances }$$

question 60

Short Answer

TABLE 10-14
A problem with a telephone line that prevents a customer from receiving or making calls is disconcerting to both the customer and the telephone company. The data on samples of 20 problems reported to two different offices of a telephone company and the time to clear these problems (in minutes) from the customers' lines are collected. Below is the Excel output to see whether there is evidence of a difference in the mean waiting time between the two offices assuming that the
population variances in the two offices are not equal.
$$\text { t-Test: Two- Sample Assuming Unequal Variances }$$
$$\begin{array} { l r r } & \text { Office 1 } & \text { Office 2 } \\\hline \text { Mean } & 2214 & 2.0115 \\\text { Variance } & 2.951657 & 3.57855 \\\text { Observations } & 20 & 20 \\\text { Hypothesized Mean Difference } & 0 & \\\mathrm { df } & 38 & \\\mathrm { t } \text { Stat } & 0.354386 & \\\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { T } < = \mathrm { t } ) \text { one- tail } & 0.362504 & \\\mathrm { t } \text { Critical one- tail } & 1.685953 & \\\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { T } < = \mathrm { t } ) \text { two- tail } & 0.725009 & \\\mathrm { t } \text { Critical two-tail } & 2.024394 & \\\hline\end{array}$$

-Referring to Table 10-14, what is the value of the test statistic for testing if there is evidence of a difference in the variability of the waiting time between the two offices?

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