A PC Company Uses Two Suppliers for Rechargeable Batteries for Its

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Essay

A PC company uses two suppliers for rechargeable batteries for its notebook computers.Two factors are important quality features of the batteries: mean use time and variation.It is desirable that the mean use time be high and the variability be low.Recently,the PC maker conducted a test on batteries from the two suppliers.In the test,9 randomly selected batteries from Supplier 1 were tested and 12 randomly selected batteries from Supplier 2 were tested.The following results were observed:
Supplier 1 Supplier 2 = 9 = 12 = 6.75 min. = 72.4 min. = 11.2 min = 9.9 min.
Based on these sample results,can the PC maker conclude that a difference exists between the two batteries with respect to the population mean use time? Test using a 0.10 level of significance.

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