TABLE 11-8
a Hotel Chain Has Identically Sized Resorts in 5

question 84

True/False

TABLE 11-8
A hotel chain has identically sized resorts in 5 locations. The data that follow resulted from analyzing the hotel occupancies on randomly selected days in the 5 locations.
$\begin{array}{llllll} \underline{\text {ROW}}& \underline{\text { Caymen}}& \underline{\text { Pennkamp }}& \underline{\text {California }}& \underline{\text {Mayaquez}}& \underline{\text { Maui }}\\ 1 & 28 & 40 & 21 & 37 & 22 \\2 & 33 & 35 & 21 & 47 & 19 \\3 & 41 & 33 & 27 & 45 & 25\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l}\text { Analysis of Variance }\\\begin{array} { l r c c c c } \text { Source } & \text { df } & \text { sS } & \text { MS } & F & p \\\text { Location } & 4 & 963.6 & & 11.47 & 0.001 \\\text { Error } & 10 & 210.0 & & & \\ \text { Total } & & & & & \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$

-Referring to Table 11-8, if a level of significance of 0.05 is chosen, the decision made indicates that at least 2 of the 5 locations have different mean occupancy rates.

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