There Are Different Approaches to Fitness Training Determine Whether These Data Are Sufficient to Infer at the One

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Essay

There are different approaches to fitness training. To judge which one of two approaches is better, 200 25-year-old men were randomly selected to participate in an experiment. For four weeks, 100 men were trained according to approach 1 while the other 100 men were trained according to approach 2. The percentage improvement in fitness was measured for each man and the statistics shown below were computed. The percentage figures are known to be normally distributed. $$\begin{array} { | c | c | } \hline \text { Approach 1 } & \text { Approach } 2 \\\hline \bar { x } _ { 1 } = 27.3 & \bar { x } _ { 2 } = 33.6 \\\hline s _ { 1 } ^ { 2 } = 47.614 & s _ { 2 } ^ { 2 } = 28.09 \\\hline\end{array}$$ Determine whether these data are sufficient to infer at the 5% significance level that the two population variances differ.

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