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Upright vacuum cleaners have either a hard body type or a soft body type. Shown are the weights in pounds of a sample of each type. At =α0.10 , can it be concluded that the means of the weights are different? Assume the variables are normally distributed and the variances are unequal.

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Use μ1for the mean weight of the hard body type.

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