A Fast Food Company Uses Two Management-Training Methods

question 34

Short Answer

A fast food company uses two management-training methods.Method 1 is a traditional method of training,and Method 2 is a new and innovative method.The company has just hired 31 new management trainees.15 of the trainees are randomly selected and assigned to the first method,and the remaining 16 trainees are assigned to the second training method.After three months of training,the management trainees take a standardized test.The test was designed to evaluate their performance and learning from training.The sample mean score and sample standard deviation of the two methods are given below.The management wants to determine if the company should implement the new training method. What is the absolute value of the rejection point (critical value of the test statistic)at α = .01?

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Definitions:

Tea Act

A 1773 act of the British Parliament that granted the East India Company the right to sell tea to the American colonies free of taxes imposed on colonial tea importers, leading to the Boston Tea Party.

East India Company

A British trading company formed in the early 17th century, granted a monopoly on British trade with India and East Asia, playing a key role in the colonization and imperial control over regions.

Intolerable Acts

Four parliamentary measures in reaction to the Boston Tea Party that forced payment for the tea, disallowed colonial trials of British soldiers, forced their quartering in private homes, and reduced the number of elected officials in Massachusetts.

Boston Tea Party

A political protest by the American colonists against British taxation, notably the Tea Act, taking place in 1773 in Boston, where they threw shipments of tea into the harbor.