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11.6 Exercise 9

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Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: The standard deviation of heights for students in a school is 0.81. A random sample of 50 students is taken, and the standard deviation of heights of the sample is 0.96. A researcher in charge of the study believes the standard deviation of heights for the school is greater than 0.81.

State the null and alternative hypotheses.

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 11.6 Test of a Single Variance, exercise 9

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