There are four auto body shops in Bangor, Maine, and all claim to promptly repair cars. To

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There are four auto body shops in Bangor, Maine, and all claim to promptly repair cars. To check if there is any difference in repair times, customers are randomly selected from each repair shop and their repair times in days are recorded. The output from a statistical software package is:

Summary Groups Sample Size Sum Average Variance Ray's Auto Body Downeast Auto Body East Coast Auto Body 3 15.4 5.133333 0.323333 4 32 1.433333 25.2 5.04 0.748 Maine Collision Center 4 25.9 6.475 0.595833 ANOVA Source of Variation S df MS p-value Between Groups Within Groups 23.37321 3 7.791069 9.612506

Is there evidence to suggest a difference in the mean repair times at the four body shops? Use the .05 significance level.

a. What are the null and alternate hypotheses?

b. What is the test statistic?

c. What is the p-value?

d. What is your decision regarding the null hypothesis?

e. Interpret the result.

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Statistical Techniques In Business And Economics

ISBN: 9781260239478

18th Edition

Authors: Douglas Lind, William Marchal, Samuel Wathen

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