Exhibit 11-2 We Are Interested in Determining Whether or Not the Variances

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Exhibit 11-2
We are interested in determining whether or not the variances of the sales at two music stores (A and B) are equal. A sample of 26 days of sales at store A has a sample standard deviation of 30 while a sample of 16 days of sales from store B has a sample standard deviation of 20.
-Refer to Exhibit 11-2. At 95% confidence the null hypothesis

• A)should be rejected
• B)should not be rejected
• C)should be revised
• D)None of these alternatives is correct.

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