A medical doctor wishes to test the claim that the standard

A medical doctor wishes to test the claim that the standard deviation of the systolic blood pressure of deep sea divers is greater than 450. To do so, she selected a random sample of 25 divers and found s = 468.

Assuming that the systolic blood pressures of deep sea divers are normally distributed, if the doctor wanted to test her research hypothesis at the .01 level of significance, what is the critical value?

Place your answer, rounded to 3 decimal places, in the blank. For example, 34.567 would be a legitimate entry.  

Solution

test statistic is a Chi-square variable with 25-1=24 deg. freedom. From Chi-square table,
.01 critical value is 42.98