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11.2 Exercise 5

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Professor Holmes has a weakness for cream filled donuts, but they believe that some bakeries are not properly filling the donuts. A sample of 24 donuts reveals a mean amount of filling equal to 0.04 cups, and the sample standard deviation is 0.11 cups. Professor Holmes has an interest in the average quantity of filling, of course, but he is particularly distressed if one donut is radically different from another. Professor Holmes does not like surprises.

Test at 95% the null hypothesis that the population variance of donut filling is significantly different from the average amount of filling 0.04 cups.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 11.2 Test of a Single Variance, exercise 5

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