Ajournalist is interested in whether there is a significant difference in the salary offered to electrical engineering and chemical engineering graduates at the university of texas at austin. she reviews the statistics for starting annual salaries for 2013-2014 and finds the following:

the test statistic is t = 2.4693, with a p-value of 0.0142. which of the following is an appropriate conclusion?

the samples provide evidence that there is a statistically significant difference between the starting salary of chemical engineering and electrical engineering graduates at the university of texas at austin for 2013-2014.
the samples do not provide statistically significant evidence that there is a difference in starting salaries of chemical engineering and electrical engineering graduates at the university of texas at austin for 2013-2014.
we cannot use the t-test in this case because the variables (starting salary of engineering graduates) may not be normally distributed.