Question

La Governor suspects that average # of people wearing masks for protection entering a bar is different in BR from New Orleans. Suppose that recording for 49 nights in New Orleans and 64 nights in Baton Rouge showed the following results (Sample means and Sample standard deviations) obtained from two samples regarding average number of people wearing masks entering two similar bars: (show all work)

            new orleans baton rouge

            n1 = 49                                    n2 = 64                                   

            X1 = 54                                   X2 = 60

            S₁ = 7.0                                    S₂ = 8.0

(a) Write the null hypothesis to test Governor’s claim that on the Average more people are wearing masks in New Orleans entering bars than in BR.

(b) What is the appropriate Test statistic? Compute its value.

        

                          

(c) If α = 0.05, state your critical value and decision rule! Also, state your conclusion?

Answer 1