A Random Sample of 10 Homes Sold During Last Month

question 101

Essay

A random sample of 10 homes sold during last month in the city of Fontana had the following number of bedrooms in each house:
4, 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 3.
At α = 0.01, test the claim that the variance of a normally distributed population is less than 1 using
A) the p-value approach.
B) the critical value approach.

• A) the p-value approach.
• B) the critical value approach.

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