Year	Fund X	Fund Y		You are an amateur investor and are trying to decide between two mutual funds: Fund X & Fund Y. You decide to let data guide your decision and extract a sample of the returns from these funds from 1980 through 2020. The data on the returns for each fund can be found at left. Conduct and interpret the appropriate two-sample hypothesis test to determine if there is a significant difference in the mean annual return of these two funds at 95% confidence. Share your results by filling out the appropriate fields below.
1980	37.64	19.54
1981	12.42	2.85
1982	-17.35	7.57
1983	59.55	-12.82
1984	49.79	14.10
1985	22.11	3.70
1986	35.41	3.94
1987	2.82	1.34		Step 1:	State the Hypotheses		Step 0:	Identify your variables
1988	-25.54	10.94			H0:						Independent Variable:
1989	16.02	18.97			HA:						Dependent Variable:
1990	55.76	9.98													Control Variable:
1991	53.15	2.35		Step 2:	Set the Criteria for a Decision
1992	60.86	5.22					tailed test
1993	46.73	3.26				:
1994	-28.31	10.71				Critical Value(s):
1995	-27.41	2.77
1996	-29.45	16.37					(if multiple please label each in pink boxes)
1997	37.98	20.58
1998	8.93	7.46		Step 3:	Compute Sample Statistics
1999	-21.72	-10.81				Test Statistic(s):
2000	57.88	-5.42
2001	20.36	16.36					(if multiple please label each in pink boxes)
2002	-9.95	12.92				p =
2003	-13.01	3.96
2004	-8.17	7.92					(if multiple please label each in pink boxes)
2005	54.84	20.05
2006	20.89	2.30		Step 4:	Make a Decision
2007	59.04	14.73
2008	54.59	19.59
2009	-30.87	4.39
2010	-15.99	18.81
2011	46.61	3.31
2012	-53.23	13.20
2013	17.48	14.75
2014	9.23	7.62
2015	-22.12	1.63
2016	18.72	5.87
2017	12.24	16.62
2018	52.13	15.32
2019	27.19	11.30
2020	54.67	-7.71