TABLE 10-15 The Table Below Presents the Summary Statistics for the Starting

question 156

Multiple Choice

TABLE 10-15
The table below presents the summary statistics for the starting annual salaries (in thousands of dollars) for individuals entering the public accounting and financial planning professions.
Sample I (public accounting) : ₁ = 60.35,S₁ = 3.25,n₁ = 12
Sample II (financial planning) : ₂ = 58.20,S₂ = 2.48,n₂ = 14
Test whether the mean starting annual salaries for individuals entering the public accounting professions is higher than that of financial planning assuming that the two population variances are the same.
-Referring to Table 10-15,state the null and alternative hypotheses for testing whether there is evidence of a difference in the variances of the starting annual salaries.

• A)H₀ : - ≥ 0 versus H₁ : - < 0
• B)H₀ : - ≤ 0 versus H₁ : - > 0
• C)H₀ : - = 0 versus H₁ : - ≠ 0
• D)H₀ : - ≠ 0 versus H₁ : - = 0

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