A retailer entered into an exdlusive agreement with a supplier who guaranteed to

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A retailer entered into an exdlusive agreement with a supplier who guaranteed to provide al products at competitive prices. The retailer eventually began to purchase supplies from other vendors who offered better prices. The original supplier filed a legal action claiming violation of the agreement. In defense, the retailer had an audit performed on a random sample of invoices. For each audited invoice, all purchases made from other suppliers were examined and the prices were compared with those offered by the original supplier, For each invoice, the percent of purchases for which the alternate supplier offered a lower price than the original supplier was recorded. Here are the data 32 76 84 68 24 56 52 76 8 100 288 96 24 80 76 96 32 80 32 56 68 64 72 24 96 32 56 68 66 Report the average of the percents with a 99% confidence interval, (Round your answers to one decimal place.) Lower limit 45.71772244 x % Upper limit 65.6156109 x % Do the sample invoices suggest that the original supplier's prices are not competitive on the average? t does Score: 2.79 out ol 2.79

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample T confidence interval:
: Mean of variable

99% confidence interval results:

Hence,

99% confidence interval will be:

Lower limit = 40.7

Upper limit = 67.3

Variable Sample Mean Std. Err. DF L. Limit U. Limit Data 54 4.8335513 29 40.676867 67.323133

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