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Statistics for Data Science II · End Term · 8 Aug 2021 · May 2021 term

Question 11: State the null and alternative hypothesis.

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An experiment was conducted to compare the alcohol content of cough syrup on two different production lines. It is suspected that variability of alcohol content is more on the production line 1. A sample of eight cough syrups from production line 1 has a sample standard deviation (s1) of 2.6, while a sample of ten cough syrups from production line 2 has a sample standard deviation (s2) of 2.2.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

State the null and alternative hypothesis.

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
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  • B
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Question 11 of 20 in the IIT Madras BS Statistics for Data Science II (Stats 2) End Term paper sat on 8 Aug 2021, in the May 2021 term (IIT M TERM FINAL EXAM POD21TEFNQP1 8 Aug 2021). It carries 1 mark.

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