It is desired to determine whether there is less variability in the silver plating done by Company 1 than in that done by Company 2. If independent random samples of size 12 of the two companies' work yield s1 = 0.035 mil and s2=0.062 mil, test the null hypothesis sigma12 = sigma22 against the alternative hypothesis sigma12 < sigma22 at the 0.05 level of significance. The F statistic for this test is . The decision is to, at alpha = 0.05, reject H0.

The conclusion is that the data provides evidence to believe that the plating done by Company 1 is less variable than that done by Company 2. Enter 0 if this statement is FALSE or 1 otherwise .