The management of the Seaside Golf Club regularly monitors the golfers on its course for speed of play.

Suppose a random sample of golfers was taken in 2015 and another random sample of golfers was selected in 2016. The results of the two samples (in minutes) are as follows:

2015 2016 x1 = 225 x2 = 219 s1 = 20.25 s2 = 21.70 n1 = 36 n2 = 31 Based on the sample results, can the management of the Seaside Golf Club conclude that average speed of play was different in 2016 than in 2015? Conduct the appropriate hypothesis test at the 0.10 level of significance.

Assume that the management of the club is willing to accept the assumption that the populations of playing times for each year are approximately normally distributed with equal variances.