Clinic Waiting Time in a Random Sample of 20 Patients

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Clinic Waiting Time In a random sample of 20 patients who visited a clinic at Medical Center 1, a researcher found that the variance of the waiting time (in minutes)was 128.0. In a random sample of 15 patients in the clinic of Medical Center 2, the researcher found the variance to be 178.8. {Clinic Waiting Time Narrative} Can we infer at the 5% level of significance that the population variances differ?

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