A Gum Manufacturer Wants to Determine Whether Blue Packaging or Red

question 12

Multiple Choice

A gum manufacturer wants to determine whether blue packaging or red packaging is preferred.The company performs a sales test by introducing red packages into a random sample of ten stores,and blue packages are introduced in an independent,random sample of ten stores.The technique most appropriate for analyzing the data is

• A)a paired sample t-test for means.
• B)the Spearman rank-order correlation analysis.
• C)regression analysis.
• D)an independent samples t-test for means.
• E)correlation analysis.

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