TABLE 11-3 As Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting Goods Retailer

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Short Answer

TABLE 11-3
As part of an evaluation program, a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of 4 brands of bicycles. She took 3 of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds. The results are presented in miles per hour in the table below.
Trial Barth Tornado Reiser Shaw
1 43 37 41 43
2 46 38 45 45
3 43 39 42 46
-Referring to Table 11-3, in testing the null hypothesis that the mean downhill coasting speeds of the 4 brands of bicycles are equal, the value of the test statistic is ________.

Calculate total manufacturing costs for specific jobs in a job-order costing system.

Understand the impact of different cost drivers (machine-hours, direct labor-hours) on overhead rates and product costing.

Calculate unit product costs within a job-order costing system.

Determine selling prices based on unit costs and markup percentages.

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