Do male and female students study the same amount per week? In2007, 58 sophomore business students were surveyed at a largeuniversity that has more than 1,000 sophomore business studentseach year. The table beloe has the gender and hours spent studyingin a typical week for the sampled students.
a. At the 0.05 significance level, is there a difference in thevariance of study time for male students and female students? (1point)
b. Using the results of part (a), which t-test is appropriatefor comparing the mean study time for male and female students? (1point)
c. At the 0.05 significance level, conduct the test selected inpart (b) (1 point)
d. Write a short summary of your findings (1 point)
Gender | Study |
M | 10.0 |
F | 18.0 |
M | 5.5 |
F | 20.0 |
F | 10.0 |
F | 18.0 |
F | 8.0 |
M | 6.0 |
F | 25.0 |
F | 22.5 |
M | 14.0 |
M | 10.0 |
F | 30.0 |
M | 6.0 |
F | 20.0 |
M | 12.0 |
M | 21.0 |
M | 15.0 |
M | 12.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 8.5 |
M | 25.0 |
F | 24.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 20.0 |
M | 8.0 |
M | 8.0 |
M | 12.0 |
M | 6.0 |
M | 6.0 |
M | 7.0 |
F | 15.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 10.0 |
F | 15.0 |
F | 10.0 |
F | 14.0 |
F | 15.0 |
F | 12.0 |
M | 9.0 |
F | 11.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 30.0 |
M | 10.0 |
F | 12.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 5.0 |
F | 15.0 |
M | 5.0 |
M | 10.0 |
M | 11.0 |
M | 15.0 |
M | 15.0 |
M | 7.0 |
M | 8.0 |
M | 12.0 |
M | 10.0 |
F | 18.0 |
