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Perform the Indicated Hypothesis Test α\alpha α = 005

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Perform the indicated hypothesis test. Be sure to do the following: identify the claim and state the null and alternative
hypotheses. Determine the critical value and rejection region. Calculate the test statistic. Decide to reject or to fail to
reject the null hypothesis and interpret the decision in the context of the original claim. Assume that the samples are
independent and that each population has a normal distribution.
-A medical researcher suspects that the variance of the pulse rate of smokers is higher than the variance of the
pulse rate of non-smokers. Use the sample statistics below to test the researcherʹs suspicion. Use α\alpha α = 0.05.  Smokersn1=61s1=7.8Non-smokersn2=121s2=5.3\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{lll} \text { Smokers}\\\mathrm{n}_{1}=61\\\\\mathrm{s} 1=7.8\end{array}\begin{array}{lll} \text {Non-smokers}\\\mathrm{n}_{2}=121\\\\\mathrm{s}_{2}=5.3\end{array}\end{array}

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