The Cranston Hardware Company Is Interested in Estimating the Difference

question 34

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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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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The count of distinct values or quantities that can be allocated to a statistical distribution.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points that constitute a sample from a population.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.