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Exercises 1. A company has reorganized its sales department.

The following data show its weekly sales both before and after reorganization. The period of comparison is taken from January to March in two consecutive years Week Sales prior reorg Sales after reorg 1 12 2 15 3 13 4 11 5 17 6 15 7 10 8 11 9 18 10 19

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Find out whether reorganization is effective. 2. A large stock-brokerage firm wants to determine how successful its new account executives have been at recruiting clients. After completing their training, new account executives spend several weeks calling prospective clients, trying to get the prospects to open accounts with the firm. The following data give the number of new accounts opened in their first two weeks by 10 randomly chosen female executives and 8 randomly chosen male executives. At =0.05, does it appear that women are more effective at generating new accounts than men are? Female 12 Male 13 11 10 14 11 13 12 13 13 14 12 13 10 12 12 14 12

3. Nine compute component dealers in major metropolitan areas were asked for their prices on two similar color printers. The results of the survey are given below. At =0.05, is it reasonable to assert that, on average, the CANON printer is less expensive than HP printer? Dealer Canon $ HP ($) 1 250 270 2 319 325 3 285 269 4 260 275 5 305 289 6 295 285 7 289 295 8 309 325 9 275 300

4. A store manager wishes to find out the effect of music on time spent by the customer in the stores. The manger identified certain frequent customers and measured the time spent by them when the music was not played and when it was played. Find out whether music increases the duration of customer stay. Not 18 21 16 22 19 24 17 21 23 18 14 16 16 19 18 20 12 22 15 played When 22 25 17 24 16 29 20 23 19 20 15 15 18 26 18 24 18 25 19 played

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