Accounting Today identified the top accounting firms in 10 geographic regions across the United States. All 10 regions reported growth in 2014. The Southeast and Gulf Coast regions reported growth of 12.36% and 5.8%, respectively. A characteristic description of the accounting firms in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions included the number of partners in the firm. Assuming that the population variances from both offices are equal. a. At the 0.01 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference between Southeast region accounting firms and Gulf Coast accounting firms with respect to the mean number of partners?
b. Determine the p-value and interpret its meaning.
c. What assumptions do you have to make about the two populations in order to justify the use of the t test?

Region Number of Partners
Southeast 173
Southeast 54
Southeast 42
Southeast 53
Southeast 26
Southeast 11
Southeast 38
Southeast 39
Southeast 31
Southeast 22
Southeast 9
Southeast 34
Southeast 10
Southeast 19
Gulf Coast 120
Gulf Coast 100
Gulf Coast 22
Gulf Coast 22
Gulf Coast 38
Gulf Coast 29
Gulf Coast 16
Gulf Coast 22
Gulf Coast 17
Gulf Coast 14
Gulf Coast 12
Gulf Coast 9
Gulf Coast 10
Gulf Coast 5
Gulf Coast 12
Gulf Coast 11
Gulf Coast 16

this story was prepared by jim

mccullaugh in los angeles and

al stewart in new york.

new york the colossal success of "top gun" appears to have dramatically altered madison avenue's

perception of corporate sponsorship

of home video projects.

the paramount home video re- lease, featuring a 60- second diet

pepsi spot, was by no means the

first prerecorded video to carry an advertiser's plug, but it was the

first major theatrical release to do so. in the aftermath of the title's

success, paramount is widely ex- pected to ink a similar deal for

"crocodile dundee" or "star trek

iv" or both.

corporate america's new attraccds push british

recording sales

to 19% gain

london fueled by the compact

disk boom, the value of u.k. manu- facturer shipments of recordings

rose 19% in the 12 -month period ended march 1987, according to the

british phonographic industry.

total value of u.k. shipments for

the period was $755 million for all

configurations. (all value figures

are based on an exchange rate of

$1.68 to the pound sterling.)

cd sales totaled 10.7 million units

worth $121.3 million- compared

with 3.7 million units worth $39.5

million in the prior 12 months -and

accounted for two -thirds of the

overall gain in trade value. at present growth rates, says the bpi, cd

sales for calendar 1987 will reach 20

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step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

6 (donuts) divided by 3 is 2.

so 2/3 means 2 times 2, which is 4/6.

you get two and your friend gets four.

the function makes a strait line horizontally with no x intercept but a y intercept at 9.