You Are Conducting a Study to Compare the Characteristics of Women

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study to compare the characteristics of women and men in senior executive positions at major US corporations.Samples of four senior executive men and four senior executive women are selected.At a 5% significance level, you use one-way analysis of variance to test the null hypothesis that the average time before promotion is the same for men and women.Report the critical value for F (F_c) that should be used in the test.

A) 5.318
B) 2.306
C) 5.987
D) 13.745