The average expenditure on valentine's day was expected to be $100.89 (usa today, february 13, 2006). do male and female consumers differ in the amounts they spend? the average expenditure in a sample survey of 40 male consumers was $135.67, and the average expenditure in a sample survey of 30 female consumers was $68.64. based on past surveys, the standard deviation for male consumers is assumed to be $35, and the standard deviation for female consumers is assumed to be $20. the z value is 2.576 .

Yes. The male and female consumers differ in the amounts they spend.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can express the null and alternative hypothesis as:

It is assumed a significance level of 0.05.

The standard deviation of the difference of means is calculated as:

The test statistic is

The degrees of freedom are:

The P-value for t=10.11 is P=0, so it is smaller than the significance level. The null hypothesis is rejected.

We can conclude that male and female consumers differ in the amounts they spend.

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