A statistician claims that the standard deviation of the weights of firemen is more than 25 pounds.   A sample of 20 randomly chosen firemen had a standard deviation of their weights of 26.2 pounds.   Assume the variable is normally distributed. At  a=0.05 what is the critical value χ2 for this test?

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A statistician claims that the standard deviation of the weights of firemen is more than 25 pounds.   A sample of 20 randomly chosen firemen had a standard deviation of their weights of 26.2 pounds.   Assume the variable is normally distributed.

At  a=0.05 what is the critical value χ2 for this test?

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