A Consulting Report That Was Recently Submitted to a Company

question 31

Multiple Choice

A consulting report that was recently submitted to a company indicated that a hypothesis test for a single population variance was conducted. The report indicated that the test statistic was 34.79, the hypothesized variance was 345 and the sample variance 600. However, the report did not indicate what the sample size was. What was it?

• A) n = 100
• B) Approximately n = 18
• C) Approximately 21
• D) Can't be determined without knowing what alpha is.

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