For Exercises 21–22, perform the indicated hypothesis test using the pooled variance method. The summary statistics were taken from random samples that were drawn independently. Assume .

Question 10.72

21. Test, at level of significance , whether > .

Sample 1
Sample 2

10.2.21

. . Reject if . . . Since is not ≥ 1.294, we do not reject . There is insufficient evidence at the level of significance that the population mean of Population 1 is greater than the population mean of Population 2.