Periodically, Merrill Lynch customers are asked to evaluateMerrill Lynch financial consultants and services (2000 MerrillLynch Client Satisfaction Survey). Higher ratings on the clientsatisfaction survey indicate better service with 7 the maximumservice rating. Independent samples of service ratings for twofinancial consultants are summarized here. Consultant A has 10years of experience, whereas consultant B has 1 year of experience.Use = .05 and test to see whether the consultant with moreexperience has the higher population mean service rating.Consultant A n=16, x1=6.82, s1= 0.64 Consultant B= N2=10, X2=6.25,S2=0.75
Compute the value of the test statistic (to 2 decimals).
