Sample data were collected to compare the ages of CEOs of top growth companies in western Canada and Quebec, shown in the table below. Exercise 11 in Section 8 - 4 looked at the variances for these two groups. Assuming the populations have equal variances, test at the 0.05 significance level the claim that these two samples come from populations with the same mean.

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Western Canada 38 54 35 40 41 34 59 37 35 48 35 59 Quebec Based on data from Profit, May 29, 1996. 50 31 38 49 34 36 35 33 39 38