You're a sociologist studying whether grocery prices are different in the inner cities than they are in the suburbs. To investigate this, you pick a random set of items (a basket of goods), and then send shoppers to buy these items at an inner city (IC) grocery, and also at a suburban (SU) grocery. You pick 29 different baskets of goods, so your secret shoppers buy 29 baskets, once at the inner city store, and once at a suburban store. Prices could be higher in the inner city because of discrimination, or they could be higher in the suburbs because of the greater disposable income. Use Excel to test the research hypothesis that inner city prices are different than the suburb's prices. The null hypothesis is that inner city prices are equal to suburban prices. You test at the alpha = 0.10 significance lev

You're a sociologist studying whether grocery prices are different in the inner cities than they are in the suburbs. To investigate this, you pick a random set of items (a basket of goods), and then send shoppers to buy these items at an inner city (IC) grocery, and also at a suburban (SU) grocery. You pick 30 different baskets of goods, so your secret shoppers buy 30 baskets, once at the inner city store, and once at a suburban store.The data is given in the dataset named "ICvSU_3095.xls", which you can find in data folder under Course Documents.  Prices could be higher in the inner city because of discrimination, or they could be higher in the suburbs because of the greater disposable income. Use Excel to test the research hypothesis that inner city prices are different than the suburb's prices. The null hypothesis is that inner city prices are equal to suburban prices. You test at the alpha = 0.05 significance level.  What do you conclude? Are prices the same? Who has higher prices?…

(3) A restaurant chain has 24 new employees: 10 (distinguishable) cooks and 14 (distinguishable) servers. How many ways are there to distribute these new employees to 7 (distinguishable) locations if each location must receive at least one new employee? Explain you answer.

1. For her botany class project, Jennifer wonders if there is a connection between the average weight of watermelons a vine produces and the root depth of the vine. Jennifer suspects that vines with deeper roots have a better water supply and produce larger melons. From a large watermelon field, 10 vines are chosen at random. At the end of 8 weeks, the watermelons are removed from each vine and the average weight of the watermelons from each vine is determined. Each plant is carefully dug up and its root depth (or length) is measure. Let x represent the root depth (to the nearest inch) and y be the mean weight of the watermelons on the vine (in pounds). Suppose that x = 17, s, = 6, y = 12, s, = 5.1, and r = = 0.93. a. Find the equation of the least squares regression line (round a and b to the nearest tenth). b. List 2 points that you know will be on the least-squares line you found in part a. c. What percent of variation is accounted for by a linear relationship? d. Using part a.,…

You are trying frantically to get dressed, and you need to reach into your sock drawer to get two matching socks in the dark. Your sock drawer contains 20 socks, consisting of 10 matched pairs. All of them are only black or white, and they are loose, disorganized randomly, and not bound together. This means you have 10 black and 10 white socks in your disorganized drawer. This makes 10 total matching pairs of 5 pairs of white and 5 pairs of black. 1. How can you guarantee success of picking a matching pair? In other words, what is the minimum number of socks needing to be picked to guarantee a matching pair? (Hint: There is a right answer to this question!) 2. Explain dependent and independent trials