The College of Engineering wants to compare whether ISyE undergrads graduate with more total credits than BME undergrads. They establish the following test:
Random samples from each department were taken. COE found that of 30 ISyE undergrads, the sample mean number of total credits was 140. Of 50 BME undergrads, the sample mean number of total credits was 133.3.
The total number of credits is known to be normally distributed with the following variances: and . Determine whether we reject the null hypothesis with alpha = 0.005.
Group of answer choices
do not reject
reject