TABLE 12-16 As Part of an Evaluation Program,a Sporting Goods Retailer Wanted

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TABLE 12-16
As part of an evaluation program,a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of 4 brands of bicycles.She took 3 of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds.The results are presented in miles per hour in the table below.
-Referring to Table 12-16,the sporting goods retailer decided to perform a Kruskal-Wallis test even though the sample size in each of the 4 groups is not larger than 5.The null hypothesis of the test is ________.

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