The Russet Potato Company Has Been Working on the Development

question 59

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The Russet Potato Company has been working on the development of a new potato seed that is hoped to be an improvement over the existing seed that is being used.Specifically,the company hopes that the new seed will result in less variability in individual potato length than the existing seed without reducing the mean length.To test whether this is the case,a sample of each seed is used to grow potatoes to maturity.The following information is given: The correct null hypothesis for testing whether the variability of the new seed is less than the old seed is:

• A)H₀ : ≤
• B)H₀ : ≥
• C)H₀ : σO ≥ σ_N
• D)H₀ : =

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