A professor has two Engineering Mathematics classes, X and Y. Class X has 13 students and class Y has 25 students. On the same test, although there was no significant difference in mean grades, class X had a standard deviation of 9 while class Y had a standard deviation of 12. Can we conclude at 1% level of significance, that the variability of class Y is greater than that of X?

A professor has two Engineering Mathematics classes, X and Y. Class X has 13 students and class Y has 25 students. On the same test, although there was no significant difference in mean grades, class X had a standard deviation of 9 while class Y had a standard deviation of 12. Can we conclude at 1% level of significance, that the variability of class Y is greater than that of X?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

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Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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