TABLE 12-19 As Part of an Evaluation Program, a Sporting Goods Retailer

question 165

Short Answer

TABLE 12-19
As part of an evaluation program, a sporting goods retailer wanted to compare the downhill coasting speeds of 4 brands of bicycles. She took 3 of each brand and determined their maximum downhill speeds. The results are presented in miles per hour in the table below

-Referring to Table 12-19, the calculation of the Kruskal-Wallis test statistic H involves obtaining the total of the ranks for each sample. These totals are ________, ________, ________, and ________.

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Definitions:

Overload Heaters

Protective devices installed in motor starters to prevent motors from overheating by mimicking the thermal characteristics of the motor under overload conditions.

Inverse Time-Delay

A characteristic of certain protective devices where the time taken to interrupt the current decreases as the magnitude of the fault current increases.

Melting Alloy

A mixture of two or more metals melted together to create a new material with specific desirable properties.

Bimetallic

Pertaining to an object made of two different metals bonded together, often used in temperature sensing applications.