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An accounting firm conducts a random sample of the accounts payable for the east and the west offices of one of its clients. From these two independent samples, the company wants to estimate the difference between the population mean values of the payables. The sample statistics obtained are as follows:

EAST OFFICE
(POPULATION X)

WEST OFFICE
(POPULATION Y)

Sample mean

Sample size

Sample standard deviation

$290

$250

We do not assume that the unknown population variances are equal. Estimate the difference between the mean values of the payables for the two offices. Use a 95% confidence level.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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