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Two types of engines are tested for fuel efficiency based on miles per gallon. A sample of 31 cars were tested with Brand X and the mean was 20.9 mpg with a standard deviation of 1.8 mpg. 31 cars tested with Brand Y had a mean of 17.6 mpg and a standard deviation of 1.2 mpg. Test the claim that Brand X is more efficient than Brand Y. Use a 0.05 significance level.
Using the data from Problem #1, calculate a 99% confidence interval of the difference between fuel efficiencies of Brand X and Brand Y.
We don't whether population variances are equal or not. Although the sample size proportion is one but sample size is large. So large sample theory leads to take z variate. Otherwise we could take pooled variance for t variate.