Question

Bank of America's Consumer Spending Survey collected data on annual credit card charges in seven different categories of expenditures: transportation, groceries, dining out, household expenses, home furnishings, apparel, and entertainment (U.S. Airways Attache, December 2003). Using data from a sample of 42 credit card accounts, assume that each account was used to identify the annual credit card charges for groceries (population 1) and the annual credit card charges for dining out (population 2). Using the difference data, the sample mean difference was   D(bar) = $803, and the sample standard deviation was s_d= $1,123.

1.) What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the difference between the population means (to the nearest whole number)?

Answer 1