An Airline Wants to Select a Computer Software Package for Its

question 87

Multiple Choice

An airline wants to select a computer software package for its reservation system.Four software packages (1, 2, 3, and 4) are commercially available.The airline will choose the package that bumps the fewest mean number of passengers as possible during a month.An experiment is setup in which each package is used to make reservations for 5 randomly selected weeks.(A total of20 weeks was included in the experiment.) The number of passengers bumped each week is given below.How should the data be analyzed? Package 1: $12,14,9,11,16$
Package 2: $2,4,7,3,1$
Package 3: $10,9,6,10,12$
Package 4: $7,6,6,15,12$

• A)F test for differences in variances.
• B)One-way ANOVA F test.
• C)t test for the differences in means.
• D)t test for the mean difference.

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