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The following portion of a confidence interval confidence interval output is bas

ID: 3355832 • Letter: T

Question

The following portion of a confidence interval confidence interval output is based on a sample of delivery times (in hours) of a package from Phoenix to New York on Federal Express and United Parcel Service.  

Sample Summaries

FedExp

UPS

Sample Size

7

9

Sample Mean

30.000

20.000

Sample Std Dev

6.928

5.315



The degrees of freedom to conduct a hypothesis test about the equality of population means is:

8

14

15

16

None of the above

Sample Summaries

FedExp

UPS

Sample Size

7

9

Sample Mean

30.000

20.000

Sample Std Dev

6.928

5.315

Explanation / Answer


when population variances are equal
the value of |t | with (n1+n2-2) i.e 14 d.f

when population variances are unequal
the value of |t | with min (n1-1, n2-1) i.e 6 d.f

[ANSWER] 14