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

question 63

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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 decision rule for a level of significance of 0.05 using the Kruskal-Wallis test is to reject the null hypothesis if the test statistic H is ________,assuming that the sample sizes were large enough to use a chi-square approximation.

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