Q:Question:A loan officer compares the interest rates for 48-month fixed-rate auto loans and 48-month variable-rate auto loans. Two independent, random samples of auto loan rates are selected. A sample of eight 48-month fixed-rate auto loans had the following loan rates (all written as percentages): [ 7.36 9.27 7.13 8.83 7.71 7.96 8.02 8.34 ] while a sample of five 48-month variable-rate auto loans had loan rates as follows: [ 7.13 7.43