SCENARIO 10-1 Are Japanese Managers More Motivated Than American Managers? a Randomly

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Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 10-1
Are Japanese managers more motivated than American managers? A randomly selected group of each were administered the Sarnoff Survey of Attitudes Toward Life (SSATL) ,which measures motivation for upward mobility.The SSATL scores are summarized below.

-Referring to Scenario 10-1,judging from the way the data were collected,which test would likely be most appropriate to employ?

• A)Paired t test
• B)Pooled-variance t test for the difference between two means
• C)F test for the ratio of two variances
• D)Z test for the difference between two proportions

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