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.