To avoid the problem of not having access to tables of the F distribution with values given for the lower tail when a two-tailed test is required, let the smaller sample variance be
A)the denominator of the test statistic
B)the numerator of the test statistic
C)at least one
D)None of these alternatives is correct.

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The smaller sample variance should be the denominator of the test statistic because the F distribution is right-skewed, and the smaller variance will tend to be in the denominator of the test statistic.

To Avoid the Problem of Not Having Access to Tables