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Student Expenditures The average expenditure per student
Chapter 8, Problem 12(choose chapter or problem)
Student Expenditures The average expenditure per student (based on average daily attendance) for a certain school year was $10,337 with a population standard deviation of $1560. A survey for the next school year of 150 randomly selected students resulted in a sample mean of $10,798. Do these results indicate that the average expenditure has changed? Choose your own level of significance. Source: World Almanac.
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Student Expenditures The average expenditure per student (based on average daily attendance) for a certain school year was $10,337 with a population standard deviation of $1560. A survey for the next school year of 150 randomly selected students resulted in a sample mean of $10,798. Do these results indicate that the average expenditure has changed? Choose your own level of significance. Source: World Almanac.
ANSWER:At the 5% level of significance, the results indicate that the average expenditure has changed. To confirm this, a two-tailed t-test can be perform