An Airline Wants to Select a Computer Software Package for Its

question 31

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 set
Up in which each package is used to make reservations for 5 randomly selected weeks.(A total of
20 weeks was included in the experiment.) The number of passengers bumped each week is
Given below.How should the data be analyzed?

• 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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