An automobile manufacturer wishes to test that claim that synthetic motor oil can improve gas mileage (in miles per gallon, or mpg). The table below shows the gas mileages, in mpg, of six cars that used synthetic motor oil. The table also shows the gas mileages in mpg of six cars that were using conventional motor oil (the controls).  Synthetic 26 27 27 26 28 29 Control 26 25 24 26 27 25 Can you conclude that the mean gas mileage for cars using conventional motor oil is less than the mean for the synthetic motor oil? Use the .01 level of significance.

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 + ...