The Cranston Hardware Company Is Interested in Estimating the Difference

question 34

True/False

The Cranston Hardware Company is interested in estimating the difference in the mean purchase for men customers versus women customers. It wishes to estimate this difference using a 95 percent confidence level. If the sample size is n = 10 from each population, the samples are independent, and sample standard deviations are used, and the variances are assumed equal, then the critical value will be t = 2.1009.

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