α=0.05​, is there enough evidence to reject the​ manufacturer's claim? Assume the population is normally distributed. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (e) below.

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A snack food manufacturer estimates that the variance of the number of grams of carbohydrates in servings of its tortilla chips is
1.34.
A dietician is asked to test this claim and finds that a random sample of
16
servings has a variance of
1.22.
At
α=0.05​,
is there enough evidence to reject the​ manufacturer's claim? Assume the population is normally distributed. Complete parts​ (a) through​ (e) below.
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The provided sample variance is s2=1.22s^2 = 1.22 and the sample size is given by n=16n = 16

Null and Alternative Hypotheses

The following null and alternative hypotheses need to be tested:

Ho:σ2=1.34Ho: \sigma^2 = 1.34

Ha:σ21.34Ha: \sigma^2 \ne 1.34

This corresponds to a two-tailed test, for which a Chi-Square test for one population variance will be used.

 

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