SCENARIO 10-2 A Researcher Randomly Sampled 30 Graduates of an MBA Program

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SCENARIO 10-2
A researcher randomly sampled 30 graduates of an MBA program and recorded data concerning their starting salaries.Of primary interest to the researcher was the effect of gender on starting salaries.
The result of the pooled-variance t-test of the mean salaries of the females (Population 1)and males (Population 2)in the sample is given below.

-Referring to Scenario 10-2,what is the 90% confidence interval estimate for the difference between two means?

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