There Is Interest at the American Savings and Loan as to Whether

question 38

True/False

There is interest at the American Savings and Loan as to whether there is a difference between average daily balances in checking accounts that are joint accounts (two or more members per account) versus single accounts (one member per account). To test this, a random sample of checking accounts was selected with the following results: Based upon these data, assuming that the populations are normally distributed with equal variances, the test statistic for testing whether the two populations have equal means is approximately -1.49.

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