Mary Did an Analysis of Acute Care Variances in Samples

question 15

Multiple Choice

Mary did an analysis of acute care variances in samples of occupancy rates at two community hospitals and obtained the following results: F-test for equality of variance
$\begin{aligned}108.243 & \text { variance: group } 1 \\98.371 & \text { variance: group } 2 \\1.100 & \text { F } \\0.905 & \text { p-value }\end{aligned}$ Can Mary conclude that the variances are unequal at ? = .05?

• A)No, there isn't enough evidence to believe the variances are unequal.
• B)Yes, the analysis shows that the variances are unequal.
• C)You can't tell without knowing the sample sizes.

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