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Subject: Statistic problem
Category: Science > Math
Asked by: mutiny58-ga
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Posted: 26 Sep 2005 15:10 PDT
Expires: 27 Sep 2005 11:39 PDT
Question ID: 572973
A candy company wants to identify whether or not the size of its?
candy bars are the same length from one day to another. On day 1 they
sample 52 candy bars with an average mean of 5.4 inches and on day 2
they sample 52 bars again with and average mean of 5.6 inches. Both
days have sample standard deviations of 3.4. Is the average mean of
size different from day 1 to day 2?
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Subject: Re: Statistic problem
From: saviera-ga on 27 Sep 2005 10:40 PDT
 
A simple way to solve this would be using the student t-test Xavg±
2.776 /N^(1/2) for a 95% confidence interval.  This implies that 95%
of your data will lie within the limits from the equation above.

So since you have same standard deviation and sample size but
different means => the two means are different. the length of the
candy bar was statistically different on both days.

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