HyVee is redesigning the check out lanes in it's supermarkets and is considering two designs. Tests on customer checkout times conducted at two stores -- the older stores in Iowa versus the new stores in Illinois -- resulted in the following data: Use Table 1. (Note: the automated question following this one will ask you confidence interval questions for this same data, so jot down your work.) |
Old Iowa stores | New Illinois stores |
x−1x−1 = 4.1 minutes | x−2x−2 = 3.4 minutes |
n1 = 120 σ = 2.2 minutes |
n2 = 100 σ = 1.5 minutes |
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Set up the hypotheses to test whether the check out times at the old Iowa stores is higher than that of the newer Illinois stores. |
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Calculate the value of the test statistic and its p-value. (Round "Test statistic" value to 2 decimal places and "p-value" to 4 decimal places.) |
Test statistic | |
p-value | |
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At the 10% significance level, what is the conclusion? |
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d. | At the 10% significance level, use the critical value approach for the conclusion. |
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Now provide confidence interval information from the previous question. Specifically:
a. What is the value of the point estimate of the difference between the two population means?
b. What is the margin of error at 90% confidence?
(± what value; please provide to 4 decimals; e.g. "0.1234")
c. With that margin of error, what is the low number in the confidence interval?
d. With that margin of error, what is the high number in the confidence interval?
Formatting your answer; your answer, typed in, should look something like this:
a. .8
b. .1234
c. .6766
d. .9234
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