The table at the right shows the residential natural gas expenditures (in dollars) in one year for a random sample of households in four regions of the United States. Assume that the populations are normally distributed and the population variances are equal. At \(\alpha=0.10\), can you reject the claim that the mean expenditures are the same for all four regions?

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Northeast Midwest South West 1608 449 509 591 779 1036 394 504 964 665 769 1011 1303 1213 753 463 1143 921 931 271 1695 1393 574 324 785 926 526 515 778 866 1096 599