Comparing Two Independent Population Means · Exercise 34
Marketing companies have collected data implying that teenage girls use more social media apps on their smartphones than teenage boys do. In one particular study of 40 randomly chosen teenage girls and boys (20 of each) with smartphones, the mean number of social media apps for the girls was 3.2 with a standard deviation of 1.5. The mean for the boys was 1.7 with a standard deviation of 0.8. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the means are approximately the same or if the girls’ mean is higher than the boys’ mean.
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OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e · §10.1 Comparing Two Independent Population Means · Exercise 34
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