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A researcher wanted to compare that activity of pet dogs living in the city and pet
dogs living in the suburbs. To test that, he collected a sample of 21 dogs from the city
and 21 dogs from the suburbs and measured how long they were active on a random
day (in minutes). The
variance of S1
2 = 400. For the suburb dogs’ sample, the mean was M2 = 150 with a
variance of S2
2 = 625.
a. Which test should be used to analyze the data?
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