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In a sample of 70 business trips taken by employees in the HR department, a company finds that the average amount spent for the trips was $1550 with a standard deviation of $450. In a sample of 80 trips taken by the employees in the sales department is $1680 with a standard deviation of $700. When testing the hypothesis (at the 5% level of significance) that the averageamount spent on trips taken by the sales department are higher than those taken by the HR department, if the p-value is 0.086 then what is your conclusion concerning the null hypothesis? Reject the null hypothesis Fail to reject the null hypothesis

In a sample of 70 business trips taken by employees in the HR department, a company finds that the average amount spent for the trips was $1550 with a standard deviation of $450. In a sample of 80 trips taken by the employees in the sales department is $1680 with a standard deviation of $700. When testing the hypothesis (at the 5% level of significance) that the averageamount spent on trips taken by the sales department are higher than those taken by the HR department, if the p-value is 0.086 then what is your conclusion concerning the null hypothesis? Reject the null hypothesis Fail to reject the null hypothesis

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In a sample of 70 business trips taken by employees in the HR department, a company finds that the average amount spent for the trips was $1550 with a standard deviation of $450. In a sample of 80 trips taken by the employees in the sales department is $1680 with a standard deviation of $700. When testing the hypothesis (at the 5% level of significance) that the averageamount spent on trips taken by the sales department are higher than those taken by the HR department, if the p-value is 0.086 then what is your conclusion concerning the null hypothesis?

   

Reject the null hypothesis
   

Fail to reject the null hypothesis
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