In: Statistics and Probability
A professor in the school of business at a certain university wants to investigate the claim that the prices of new textbooks in the campus store are higher than a competing national online bookstore by more than 50 cents. The professor randomly chooses required texts for 12 business school courses. Use α=0.05
. The data is given in
the table below.
| Book | Campus Store | Online Store |
| A | 171.79 | 171.56 |
| B | 155.76 | 154.72 |
| C | 108.11 | 106.57 |
| D | 161.67 | 156.68 |
| E | 151.47 | 151.18 |
| F | 137.68 | 136.36 |
| G | 131.8 | 130.78 |
| H | 39.99 | 39.46 |
| I | 139.67 | 138.87 |
| J | 244.38 | 240.41 |
| K | 115.13 | 114.37 |
| L | 139.49 | 139.26 |
(b) Carry out the appropriate statistical test and find the
P-value, to at least three decimal places.
P=