SCENARIO 11-3 As Part of an Evaluation Program,a Sporting Goods Retailer Wanted

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SCENARIO 11-3
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 Scenario 11-3,what should be the decision for the Levene's test for homogeneity of variances at a 5% level of significance?

• A)Reject the null hypothesis because the p-value is smaller than the level of significance.
• B)Reject the null hypothesis because the p-value is larger than the level of significance.
• C)Do not reject the null hypothesis because the p-value is smaller than the level of significance.
• D)Do not reject the null hypothesis because the p-value is larger than the level of significance.

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