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5.32 Fuel efficiency of manual and automatic cars, Part I: Each year the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releases fuel economy data on cars manufactured in that year. Below are summary statistics on fuel efficiency (in miles/gallon) from random samples of cars with manual and automatic transmissions manufactured in 2012. Do these data provide strong evidence of a difference between the average fuel efficiency of cars with manual and automatic transmissions in terms of their average city mileage? Assume that conditions for inference are satisfied.
City MPG, Automatic | City MPG, Manual | |
---|---|---|
Mean | 16.12 | 19.85 |
SD | 3.58 | 4.51 |
n | 26 | 26 |
The hypotheses for this test are:
The test statistic is: (please round to two decimal
places)
The p-value is: (please round to four decimal
places)
Interpret the result of the hypothesis test in the context of the
problem:
n1 = 26 , x1 = 16.12 , s1 = 3.58
n2 = 26 , x2 = 19.85 , s2 = 4.51
.
H0: u1 = u2
H1: u1 is not equal to u2
.
pooled variance Sp^2 = = ((26-1)*(3.58^2) + (26-1)*(4.51^2)) / (26+26-2)
Sp^2 = 16.5783
Sp = 4.0716
.
standard error,SE = Sp * sqrt((1/n1)+(1/n2))
SE = 1.1293
.
test statistic, t = (x1-x2) / SE
t = -3.303
degree of freedom = n1+n2-2 = 50
Since it is a 2-tailed test so
P-value = 0.0018
since P-value < 0.05, hence reject H0
Yes, these data provide strong evidence of a difference between the means.