9 A human resources director for a large company is interest

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A human resources director for a large company is interested in studying the nature of families across the United States in order to advise the Board of Directors on where a new branch office should be located. One issue is whether there is a difference in the mean age at which a person\'s first child is born that is due to the part of the country in which the person lives.

An ANOVA was performed examining 9 regions in the United States: E. North Central, E. South Central, Middle Atlantic, Mountain, New England, Pacific, South Atlantic, W. South Central, and W. North Central. The results are shown in the ANOVA table below:

Calculate the F statistic to two decimal places.

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