Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN: 9781337115186

Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 10.2, Problem 15E

Hotel prices worldwide are projected to increase by 3% next year (Lodging Magazine website, June 15, 2016), but is there a difference between Europe and the U.S.? Suppose we have projected changes in hotel costs for 47 randomly selected major European cities and 53 randomly selected major U.S. cities. These data are provided in the DATAfile IntHotels.

a. On the basis of the sample results, can we conclude that the mean change in hotels rates in Europe and the U.S. are different? Develop appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.
b. Use α = .01. What is your conclusion?

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Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)

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