To Avoid the Problem of Having Access to Tables of the F

Multiple Choice

To avoid the problem of having access to tables of the F distribution with values for the lower tail when a one-tailed test is required, let the _____ variance be the numerator of the test statistic.

A) smaller sample
B) larger sample
C) sample variance from the population with the smaller hypothesized
D) sample variance from the population with the larger hypothesized