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Corporate advertising tries to enhance the image of the corporation. A study compared two ads from two sources, the wall street journal and the national enquirer. Subjects were asked to pretend that their company was considering a major investment in performax, the fictious sportswear firm in the ads. Each subject was asked to respond to the question " How trustworthy was the source in the sportswear company ad for performax?" On a 7-point scale. Higher values indicated more trustworthiness. Here is a summary of the results.

AD SOURCE.                    N           Standard deviation       Sample mean

wall street journal.          66                     1.50                         4.77

National Enquirer            61                      1.64                        2.43

a) Compare the two sources of ads using a T test. Be sure to state your null and alternative hypotheses, the test statistic with degrees of freedom, the P value and your conclusion.

b) Give a 95% confidence interval for the difference

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