A particular magazine identified the top accounting firms in 11 geographic regions across a certain country. Even though all 11 regions reported growth in the past year, region A and region B reported the highest combined growths, with 17% and 18%, respectively. A characteristic description of the accounting firms in these regions included the number of partners in the firm. The accompanying table contains data on the number of partners. Complete parts (a) through (d) below. Click on the icon to view the data table. IMPORTANT NOTE: In all of these questions, there are 2 possible ratios A/B and B/A! Our convention is to always assume that the larger variance is in the numerator (i.e., on top). The correct answer will always be found in this fashion. Similarly, in questions about a critical value, we shall consider the right (upper) tail. a. At the 0. 10 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the variability in numbers of partners for region A accounting firms and region B accounting firms? Determine the hypotheses, where of is the population variance of the numbers of partners for region A accounting firms and oz is the population variance of the numbers of partners for region B accounting firms. Choose the correct answer below. OA. Ho: 07$ 02 OB. Ho: 07 = 02 H1:01 = 02 H1:09 # 0 2 OC. Ho: 02 203 OD. Ho: 03 so? H: 07