score for 15 students is 81.1 with a standard deviation of 7.4. Test the professor's claim at the 0.05 level of significance. Assume that the population variances are equal.   Once you feel your first post is correct, support your conclusion with an appropriate confidence interval.

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A professor is concerned that the two sections of applied statistics she teachers are not performing at the same level. To test her claim, she looks at the mean exam score for a random sample of students from each class. In Class A, the mean exam score for 12 students is 78.7 with a standard deviation of 6.5. In Class B, the mean exam score for 15 students is 81.1 with a standard deviation of 7.4. Test the professor's claim at the 0.05 level of significance. Assume that the population variances are equal.
 
Once you feel your first post is correct, support your conclusion with an appropriate confidence interval.
 
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