A Professor of Statistics in Michigan State University Wants to Determine

question 104

Multiple Choice

A professor of statistics in Michigan State University wants to determine whether the average starting salaries among graduates of the 15 universities in Michigan are equal. A sample of 25 recent graduates from each university was randomly taken. The appropriate critical value for the ANOVA test is obtained from the F-distribution with degrees of freedom and is equal to:

• A) 15 and 25
• B) 14 and 360
• C) 360 and 14
• D) 25 and 15
• E) 25 and 10

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