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The Berkeley Supermarket Buys Its Supplies of Potatoes from Two

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The Berkeley Supermarket buys its supplies of potatoes from two different farms, A and B.In a recent sampling test, it was found that the sample taken from Farm A had a mean weight of 10 ounces per potato, whereas the sample from Farm B had a mean weight of 10.3 ounces.In view of this test, is there a statistically discernible difference at the 95 percent confidence level) between the mean weights of the potatoes of the two farms?


A) Yes.
B) No, because the difference of 0.3 ounces is very small compared to the mean approximately 3 percent) .
C) The standard deviations of both samples must be known the sample sizes are irrelevant) before the above question can be answered.
D) Both the standard deviations and sample sizes must be known before the above question can be answered.
E) Even if both the standard deviations and sample sizes were known, the above question cannot be answered.

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