The Newsville City Press Is a Daily Newspaper Serving a City

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The Newsville City Press is a daily newspaper serving a city with a population of just over 200,000. The publishers have placed vending machines for their paper throughout Newsville and its suburbs. They also sell their papers at most of the supermarkets, convenience stores, bookstores, and drug stores in the area. The Newsville City Press uses an intensive distribution strategy.

Recognize the relationship between the F-distribution and the chi-squared distribution.

Understand the properties and applications of the chi-squared distribution.

Perform hypothesis tests regarding population variances and interpret the results.

Estimate the variance ratio between two populations and interpret confidence intervals for this ratio.

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