Hypothesis testing of varaiance-cereal box filling weight

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The filling weight for boxes of cereal is designed to have a variance .02 ounces or less. A sample of 41 boxes of cereal shows a sample standard deviation of .16 ounces. Use alpha = .05 to determine whether the variance in the cereal box filling weight is exceeding the design specification.

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