Exhibit 10

question 4

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 10.5.A producer of fine chocolates believes that the sales of two varieties of truffles differ significantly during the holiday season.The first variety is milk chocolate while the second is milk chocolate filled with mint.It is reasonable to assume that truffle sales are normally distributed with unknown but equal population variances.Two independent samples of 18 observations each are collected for the holiday period.A sample mean of 12 million milk chocolate truffles sold with a sample standard deviation of 2.5 million.A sample mean of 13.5 million truffles filled with mint sold with a sample standard deviation of 2.3 million.Use milk chocolate as population 1 and mint chocolate as population 2. Refer to Exhibit 10.5.What are the appropriate hypotheses to determine if the average sales of the two varieties of truffles differ significantly during the holiday season?

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Product Line

A group of related products offered by a company that serve a similar need or are marketed under a single brand.

Service Organizations

Companies offering non-physical services or products to their customers, rather than physical items.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to related products and services based on their usage of resources.

Selling and Administrative Costs

Expenses related to the selling of products and the management of a business, exclusive of manufacturing costs.