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You have been asked to determine if two different production processes have different mean numbers of units produced per hour. Process 1 has a mean defined as μ1 and process 2 has a mean defined as μ2. The null and alternative hypotheses are Upper H 0: μ1 − μ2 less than or equals ≤0 and Upper H 1 : mu 1 minus mu 2 greater than 0 H1: μ1−μ2>0. The process variances are unknown but assumed to be equal. Using random samples of 36 observations from process 1 and 49 observations from process 2, the sample means are 57 and 46 for populations 1 and 2 respectively. Complete parts a through d below.
a. Can you reject the null hypothesis, using a probability of Type I error alpha α equals=0.05, if the sample standard deviation from process 1 is 30 and from process 2 is 26?
The test statistic is t = The critical value(s) is (are) ?
b.Can you reject the null hypothesis, using a probability of Type I error alpha α equals=0.05, if the sample standard deviation from process 1 is 23 and from process 2 is 36?
The test statistic is t = The critical value(s) is (are) ?
c.Can you reject the null hypothesis, using a probability of Type I error alpha α equals=0.05, if the sample standard deviation from process 1 is 30 and from process 2 is 35?
The test statistic is t = The critical value(s) is (are) ?
d.Can you reject the null hypothesis, using a probability of Type I error alpha α equals=0.05, if the sample standard deviation from process 1 is 14 and from process 2 is 44?
The test statistic is t = The critical value(s) is (are) ?