Question: I need the answers to a - c below A ski company in Vail owns two ski shops, one on the west side and one

I need the answers to a - c below

A ski company in Vail owns two ski shops, one on the west side and one on the east side of Vail. Ski hat sales data (in dollars) for a random sample of 5 Saturdays during the 2004 season showed the following results. Is there a significant difference in sales dollars of hats between the west side and east side stores at the 10 percent level of significance?

Saturday Sales Data

Saturday East Side Shop West Side Shop

1 502 513

2 413 739

3 639 694

4 509 514

5 464 564

(a)Choose the appropriate hypotheses. Assumedis the difference in average sales between the east side and west side stores.

  1. H0:d= 0 versusH1:d 0.
  2. H0:d 0 versusH1:d= 0.

  • a
  • b

(b)State the decision rule for a 5 percent level of significance.(Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

Reject the null hypothesis iftcalc<___?_____ ortcalc>_____?_____ .

(c-1)Find the test statistictcalc.(Round your answer to 2 decimal places. A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign.)

tcalc_____?_________

(c-2)What is your conclusion?

We(Click to select)cannotcanconclude that there is a significant difference in sales dollars of hats between the west side and east side stores.

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