The marketing department at Insure-Me, a large insurance company, wants to advertise that customers can save, on
Question:
The marketing department at Insure-Me, a large insurance company, wants to advertise that customers can save, on average, more than $100 on their annual automotive insurance policies (relative to their closest competitor) by switching their policies to Insure-Me. However, to avoid potential litigation for false advertising, they select a random sample of 50 policyholders and compare their premiums to those of their closest competitor. A portion of the data is presented below.
Policyholder Competitor's Premium"Insure-Me" Premium
1...........................958................................1086
2..........................1034.................................366
⋮.............................⋮.......................................⋮
50........................1161.................................964
a. Specify the competing hypotheses to determine whether the mean difference between the competitor's premium and Insure-Me's premium is over $100.
b. Using the appropriate commands in Excel, find the value of the test statistic and the p-value.
c. What is the conclusion at the 5% significance level? What is the conclusion at the 10% significance level?
Step by Step Answer:
Business Statistics Communicating With Numbers
ISBN: 9780078020551
2nd Edition
Authors: Sanjiv Jaggia, Alison Kelly