Applicable Fall 09 Exam 2 Solutions

Notes:

For this exam, your professor made it such that all of the applicable data is on the LAST
pages (i.e. it can be torn off). So I recommend that you do that to make this process
easier.

In the Fall 2009 semester, Dr. Thompson used a ttable given on the first page of this
exam. These solutions reflect the use of this table.

14. Answer: (D)

Much as two way ANOVA is NOT on this exam, we are given a full on output of all the data
pertaining to this question. So, read the situation that pertains to this question, and take a look
at the given summary statistics.

As you see, we can get the mean and variances from the two way ANOVA output

SUMMARY
MIS
Mgmt
Mkt
Fin
Total
Year 1




Count
6
6
6
6
24
Sum
459
539
522
500
2020
Average
76.5
89.83
87
83.33
84.167
Variance
21.9
9.37
11.2
20.27
39.62
:
:
:
:
:
:
Year 4




Count
6
6
6
6
24
Sum
417
504
495
460
1876
Average
69.5
84
82.5
76.67
78.167
Variance
37.5
18.8
10.7
19.1
52.67

We are told to NOT assume that the standard deviations are equal, we will use the standard
error for the non-pooled procedure i.e.

SE =

s12
n1

s22
n2

39.62
24

52.67
24

= 1.961

15.
Answer: (A)

As per the formula sheet

tcalc =

( x1 x2 ) H0 value
2

s1

n1

s2

tcalc =

( x1 x2 ) H0 value
SE

(84.167 78.167) 0
2.80

= 2.14

n2