A Potato Chip Manufacturer Has Two Packaging Lines and Wants

question 67

True/False

A potato chip manufacturer has two packaging lines and wants to determine if the variances differ between the two lines. They take samples of n1 = 10 bags from line 1 and n2 = 8 bags from line 2. To perform the hypothesis test at the 0.05 level of significance, the critical value is F = 3.68.

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