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STAT 211 Business Statistics I 11<br />
Q7. (2+6+4=12 pts.) An urban planning group is interested in estimating the difference between the<br />
mean household incomes for two neighborhoods in a large area. Independent r<strong>and</strong>om samples <strong>of</strong><br />
households in the neighborhoods provided the following results.<br />
Neighborhood 1 Neighborhood 2<br />
Sample size=8<br />
Sample size=12<br />
Sample mean=$15700 Sample mean $14500<br />
Sample St. Deviation=$700 Sample St. Deviation=850<br />
a. Find point estimate for the difference between the mean incomes in the two neighborhoods.<br />
b. Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean incomes.<br />
c. What assumptions were made to compute the interval estimate in part (b)