The marketing manager of a firm that produces laundry products decides to test market a new laundry product in each of the firm's two sales regions. He wants to determine whether there will be a difference in mean sales per market per month between the two regions. A random sample of 12 supermarkets from Region 1 had mean sales of 79.8 with a standard deviation of 8.8. A random sample of 17 supermarkets from Region 2 had a mean sales of 85.2 with a standard deviation of 8.3. Does the test marketing reveal a difference in potential meal sales per market in Region 2? Use a signifiance level of a = 0.02 for the test. State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test and find the test statistic.

The null hypothesis is  

The  alternative hypothesis is  

The test statistics is  

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

  The first sample size is  

   The  first sample  mean is  

    The first standard deviation is  

   The second sample  size is  

    The  second  sample  mean is  

    The second  standard deviation is  

The null hypothesis is  

The  alternative hypothesis is  

Generally the test statistics is  mathematically represented as  

   =>          

=>                

step-by-step explanation:

let

we know that

the y-intercept is the y-coordinate of the point when the value of x is equal to zero

so

the y-coordinate of the point a is the y-intercept

the answer part a) is

the value of y-intercept is

part b) find the slope m

we know that

the value of the slope is equal to

substitute the values

therefore

the answer part b) is

the value of the slope is equal to

the general answer is

the slope is

the value of y-intercept is