SCENARIO 10-3
as Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting

question 185

True/False

SCENARIO 10-3
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. $\begin{array}{lllll}\text { Trial}&\text { Barth}&\text { Tornado }&\text {Reiser}&\text { Shaw }\\1 & 43 & 37 & 41 & 43 \\2 & 46 & 38 & 45 & 45 \\3 & 43 & 39 & 42 & 46\end{array}$
-Referring to SCENARIO 10-3, the null hypothesis should be rejected at a 5% level of significance.

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Definitions:

Poisson Arrivals

A process that describes the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Average Number

A value obtained by dividing the sum of all quantities in a dataset by the number of quantities in that dataset, commonly known as the mean.

FCFS

"First Come, First Served," a method of service in which requests are attended to in the order in which they are received.

Balking

The phenomenon where individuals in a queue decide not to enter the queue or leave before being serviced upon assessing the wait time to be too long.