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Leading Businesses The following data show the yearly budgets for leading business sectors in the United States. At α = 0.05, is there a significant difference in the mean budgets of the business sectors? The data are in thousands of dollars.Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing unless otherwise specified.
a. State the hypotheses and identify the claim.
b. Find the critical value.
c. Compute the test value.
d. Make the decision.
e. Summarize the results.
Beverages |
Electronics |
Food producers |
Supportive services |
170 |
46 |
59 |
56 |
128 |
24 |
58 |
37 |
19 |
18 |
33 |
19 |
16 |
14 |
31 |
19 |
12 |
13 |
28 |
17 |
11 |
12 |
22 |
15 |
10 |
10 |
16 |
15 |