Pepsi is experimenting with a new version of their originalMountain Dew soda flavor and wants to know
Question:
Pepsi is experimenting with a new version of their originalMountain Dew soda flavor and wants to know how it will be receivedby the market. Specifically, they want to know if the new versionwill be rated higher, on average. They ask a group of50 people to taste the original Mountain Dew flavor and rate it ona scale from 1-10. They then ask the same 50 people to taste thenew version of Mountain Dew and again rate it on a scale from 1-10.They find a difference in the mean rating between the two to be0.58 and a standard deviation of the differences of 1.21.
Based on the information from the scenario above, which of the formulas will you use to calculate the teststatistic?
Data Analysis and Decision Making
ISBN: 978-0538476126
4th edition
Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe