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Laptop Battery Charge Time Narrative
A computer laboratory manager was in charge of purchasing new battery packs for her lab of laptop computers. She narrowed her choices to two models that were available for her machines. Since the models cost about the same, she was interested in determining whether there was a difference in the average time the battery packs would function before needing to be recharged. She took two independent samples and computed the following summary information:
-Independent random samples of 35 and 50 observations are drawn from two quantitative populations, 1 and 2, respectively. The sample data summary is shown here: Do the data present sufficient evidence to indicate that the mean for population 1 is smaller than the mean for population 2? Use the p-value approach and the critical value approach and explain your conclusion.
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