1. We want to test the hypothesis that population B has a smaller variance than population A.
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Sample A
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Sample B
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s2
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22
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25
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n
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10
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8
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The test statistic for this problem equals:
A. .77
B. .88
C. 1.14
D. 1.29
2. To avoid the problem of not having access to tables of the F distribution with values given for the lower tail when a two-tailed test is required, let the smaller sample variance be
A. the denominator of the test statistic
B. the numerator of the test statistic
C. at least one
D. None of these alternatives is correct