In: Statistics and Probability
To determine the effect of advertising in the Yellow Pages. Bell Telephone took a sample of 40 retail stores that did not advertise in the Yellow Pages last year but did so this year. The annual sales (in thousands of dollars) for each store in both years were recorded.
a. Estimate with 90% confidence the improvement in sales between the 2 years.
b. Canwe infer at the 5% significance level that advertising in the Yellow Pagesimproves sales?
c. What are the required condition(s) of the techniques used in parts (a) and (b)?
This Year | Last Year |
189 | 151 |
225 | 224 |
106 | 30 |
146 | 132 |
234 | 233 |
233 | 213 |
210 | 197 |
107 | 81 |
213 | 209 |
174 | 165 |
209 | 208 |
237 | 251 |
190 | 144 |
159 | 154 |
176 | 160 |
145 | 96 |
294 | 257 |
141 | 81 |
197 | 166 |
156 | 170 |
167 | 257 |
224 | 231 |
250 | 195 |
210 | 221 |
257 | 211 |
197 | 183 |
203 | 180 |
190 | 127 |
202 | 170 |
191 | 177 |
249 | 236 |
196 | 154 |
183 | 143 |
192 | 168 |
217 | 154 |
104 | 102 |
275 | 242 |
137 | 82 |
128 | 148 |
159 | 179 |
Solution...
Part A:
Part B:
Hypothesis (as stated above) is same for this case also...
Part C will be given soon...
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