TABLE 10-15 The Table Below Presents the Summary Statistics for the Starting

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TABLE 10-15
The table below presents the summary statistics for the starting annual salaries (in thousands of dollars) for individuals entering the public accounting and financial planning professions.
Sample I (public accounting): ₁ = 60.35, S₁ = 3.25, n₁ = 12
Sample II (financial planning): ₂ = 58.20, S₂ = 2.48, n₂ = 14
Test whether the mean starting annual salaries for individuals entering the public accounting professions is higher than that of financial planning assuming that the two population variances are the same.
-Referring to Table 10-15, what is the highest level of significance at which a test on a difference in the variances will not be rejected?

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Central Authority

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Tasks They Perform

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