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

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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 for Levene's test for homogeneity of variances is

• A)\(H _ { 0 } : \mu _ { A } = \mu _ { B } = \mu _ { C } = \mu _ { D }\)
• B)\(H _ { 0 } : M _ { A } = M _ { B } = M _ { C } = M _ { D }\)
• C)\(H _ { 0 } : \sigma _ { A } ^ { 2 } = \sigma _ { B } ^ { 2 } = \sigma _ { C } ^ { 2 } = \sigma _ { D } ^ { 2 }\)
• D)\(H _ { 0 } : \pi _ { A } = \pi _ { B } = \pi _ { C } = \pi _ { D }\)

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