A particular magazine identified the top accounting firms in

A particular magazine identified the top accounting firms in 7 geographic regions across a certain country. Even though all 7 regions reported growth in the past year. region A and region B reported the highest combined growths, with 19% and 23%. respectively. A characteristic description of the accounting firms in these regions included the number of partners in the firm. The accompanying table contains data on the number of partners. Complete parts (a) through (d) below. Click on the icon to view the data table. a. At the 0.10 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the variability in numbers of partners for region A accounting firms and region B accounting firms? Determine the hypotheses. where sigma sigma 2^2 is the population variance of the numbers of partners for region A accounting firms and sigma 2^2 is the population variance of the numbers of partners for region B accounting firms. Choose the correct answer below.

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