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Dmitry_Shevchenko [17]
3 years ago
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Based on an indication that mean daily car rental rates may be higher for Boston than for Dallas, a survey of eight car rental c

ompanies in Boston is taken and the sample mean car rental rate is $47, with a standard deviation of $3. Further, suppose a survey of nine car rental companies in Dallas results in a sample mean of $44 and a standard deviation of $3. Use alpha = 0.05 to test to determine whether the average daily car rental rates in Boston are significantly higher than those in Dallas. Assume car rental rates are normally distributed and the population variances are equal. The degrees of freedom for this problem are _______.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Elina [12.6K]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

t=\frac{(47 -44)-(0)}{3\sqrt{\frac{1}{8}+\frac{1}{9}}}=2.058

The degrees of freedom are:

df=8+9-2=15

And the p value would be:

p_v =P(t_{15}>2.058) =0.0287

Since we have a p value lower than the significance level given of 0.05 we can reject the null hypothesis and we can conclude that the true mean for car rental rates in Boston are significantly higher than those in Dallas

Step-by-step explanation:

Data given

n_1 =8 represent the sample size for group Boston

n_2 =9 represent the sample size for group Dallas

\bar X_1 =47 represent the sample mean for the group Boston

\bar X_2 =44 represent the sample mean for the group Dallas

s_1=3 represent the sample standard deviation for group Boston

s_2=3 represent the sample standard deviation for group Dallas

We can assume that we have independent samples from two normal distributions with equal variances and that is:

\sigma^2_1 =\sigma^2_2 =\sigma^2

Let the subindex 1 for Boston and 2 for Dallas we want to check the following hypothesis:

Null hypothesis: \mu_1 \leq \mu_2

Alternative hypothesis: \mu_1 > \mu_2

The statistic is given by this formula:

t=\frac{(\bar X_1 -\bar X_2)-(\mu_{1}-\mu_2)}{S_p\sqrt{\frac{1}{n_1}+\frac{1}{n_2}}}

Where t follows a t student distribution with n_1+n_2 -2 degrees of freedom and the pooled variance S^2_p is given by this formula:

\S^2_p =\frac{(n_1-1)S^2_1 +(n_2 -1)S^2_2}{n_1 +n_2 -2}

Replacing we got:

\S^2_p =\frac{(8-1)(3)^2 +(9 -1)(3)^2}{8 +9 -2}=9

And the deviation would be just the square root of the variance:

S_p=3

The statitsic would be:

t=\frac{(47 -44)-(0)}{3\sqrt{\frac{1}{8}+\frac{1}{9}}}=2.058

The degrees of freedom are:

df=8+9-2=15

And the p value would be:

p_v =P(t_{15}>2.058) =0.0287

Since we have a p value lower than the significance level given of 0.05 we can reject the null hypothesis and we can conclude that the true mean for car rental rates in Boston are significantly higher than those in Dallas

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