The management of a department store is interested in estimating the difference between the mean credit purchases of customers using the store's credit card versus those customers using a national major credit card. You are given the following information. Store's Card Major Credit Card
Sample size 64 49
Sample mean $140 $125
Population standard deviation $10 $8

A point estimate for the difference between the means is:

a. 18
b. 265
c. 15
d. 2