Question

An advertising executive claims that there is a difference in the mean household income for credit cardholders of Visa Gold and of MasterCard Gold. A random survey of 18 Visa Gold cardholders resulted in a mean household income of $84,280 with a standard deviation of $10,400. A random survey of 11 MasterCard Gold cardholders resulted in a mean household income of $79,360 with a standard deviation of $9800. Is there enough evidence to support the executive's claim? Let μ1 be the true mean household income for Visa Gold cardholders and μ2 be the true mean household income for MasterCard Gold cardholders. Use a significance level of α=0.01 for the test. Assume that the population variances are not equal and that the two populations are normally distributed.

Step 1 of 4: State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.

Step 2 of 4: Compute the value of the t test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places.

Step 3 of 4: Determine the decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis H0 Round your answer to three decimal places.

Step 4 of 4: Reject Null Hypothesis Fail to Reject Null Hypothesis

Answer 1