Homework SourseDavid Anderson has been working as a lecturer at Michigan St
David Anderson has been working as a lecturer at Michigan State University for the last three years. He teaches two large sections of introductory accounting every semester. While he uses the same lecture notes in both sections, his students in the first section outperform those in the second section. He believes that students in the first section not only tend to get higher scores, they also tend to have lower variability in scores. David decides to carry out a formal test to validate his hunch regarding the difference in average scores. In a random sample of 20 students in the first section, he computes a mean and a standard deviation of 77.4 and 12.6, respectively. In the second section, a random sample of 21 students results in a mean of 75.7 and a standard deviation of 1.12.
Sample 1 consists of students in the first section and Sample 2 represents students in the second section.
Construct the null and the alternative hypotheses to test David’s hunch.
Calculate the value of the test statistic. (Round intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)
| David Anderson has been working as a lecturer at Michigan State University for the last three years. He teaches two large sections of introductory accounting every semester. While he uses the same lecture notes in both sections, his students in the first section outperform those in the second section. He believes that students in the first section not only tend to get higher scores, they also tend to have lower variability in scores. David decides to carry out a formal test to validate his hunch regarding the difference in average scores. In a random sample of 20 students in the first section, he computes a mean and a standard deviation of 77.4 and 12.6, respectively. In the second section, a random sample of 21 students results in a mean of 75.7 and a standard deviation of 1.12. |
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