SCENARIO 10-15 The Table Below Presents the Summary Statistics for the Starting

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SCENARIO 10-15
The table below presents the summary statistics for the starting annual salaries (in thousands of dollars)for individuals entering the public accounting and financial planning professions.
Sample I (public accounting):

Test whether the mean starting annual salaries for individuals entering the public accounting professions is higher than that of financial planning assuming that the two population variances are the same.
-Referring to Scenario 10-15,what is(are)the critical value(s)of the relevant hypothesis test if the level of significance is 0.10?

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