After seeing countless commercials claiming one can get cheaper car insurance from an online company, a local

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After seeing countless commercials claiming one can get cheaper car insurance from an online company, a local insurance agent was concerned that he might lose some customers. To investigate, he randomly selected profiles (type of car, coverage, driving record, etc.) for 10 of his clients and checked online price quotes for their policies. The comparisons are shown in the table.
After seeing countless commercials claiming one can get cheaper car

His statistical software produced the following summaries (where PriceDiff = Local - Online):

After seeing countless commercials claiming one can get cheaper car

At first, the insurance agent wondered whether there was some kind of mistake in this output. He thought the Pythagorean Theorem of Statistics should work for finding the standard deviation of the price differences€”in other words, that SD(Local €“ Online) = ˆšSD2(Local) + SD2(Online).
But when he checked, he found that ˆš(229.2812) + (256.2672)2 = 343.864,not 175.663 as given by the software. Tell him where his mistake is.

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Business Statistics

ISBN: 9780321925831

3rd Edition

Authors: Norean Sharpe, Richard Veaux, Paul Velleman

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