We Are Interested in Testing the Following Hypotheses $\mu$ ₁- $\mu$ ₂ $\ge$

question 96

Multiple Choice

We are interested in testing the following hypotheses.
H₀: $\mu$ ₁- $\mu$ ₂ $\ge$ 0
H_a: $\mu$ ₁- $\mu$ ₂ < 0
The test statistic Z is computed to be 2.83. The p-value for this test is

• A)0.4977
• B)0.0023
• C)0.0046
• D)0.9977

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