Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 14

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-Four different watering schedules are used on bean plants. The number of beans on each randomly selected plant is given below. Use the Kruskal-Wallis test to find the test statistic H to test the hypothesis that there is no difference in the distribution of the populations. Use $\alpha = 0.05$ .
$\begin{array}{cccc}\hline \text { Schedule } 1 & \text { Schedule } 2 & \text { Schedule } 3 & \text { Schedule 4 } \\\hline 9 & 8 & 9 & 6 \\8 & 11 & 6 & 8 \\9 & 8 & 7 & 6 \\10 & 8 & 6 & 7 \\10 & 8 & 5 & 8 \\9 & 9 & 6 & 7\end{array}$

• A) \(12.833\)
• B) \(10.922\)
• C) \(15.364\)
• D) \(14.818\)

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