Join: Meeting in 'M223 EDA BSCE 2E T 6:00-9:00 (R... Use both devices, or transfer to this one a I 6 Exercise MS.docx 1. A baby food producer claims that her product is superior to that of her leading competitor. in that babies gain weight faster with her product. As an experiment. 10 healthy newborn infants are randomly selected. For 2 months, 5 of the babies are fed the producefs product and the other 5 are ted the competitor's product. Each baby's weight gain [in ounces) is shown in the accompanying tattle. Weight gain (ounces) Producer's Product Competitor's Product 30 32 36 24 28 3t} 37 29 40 2? a. Can we conclude. using weight gain as our criterion. that baby food producer is indeed superior? b. Flnd with 95% condence the difference banireen the mean weight gains of the MD products. 2. The management of a computer company that has previously specialized in the home computer market wishes to expand into business applications. In order to determine which areas of business are most likely to purchase their computers and software, a preliminary survey was performed. A total of 150 middle managers were randomly selected, 50 of whom were in the banking industry, 50 from resources- based companies, and the remaining 50 from retail companies. Each was asked how many hours per week he or she spent working on a computer at the office. The computer company's management has decided that if there is no evidence of differences among the industries, the company's marketing strategy will be to attempt to sell to all industries. If there are differences, however, it will tailor marketing and advertising toward the industry that uses the computer most. Based on the following statistics what would you recommend? Use a: 0.05 with SST = 73.13 SSE : 1548.?0 Ill :4