What made Wagener believe the continents may have all been one unit?

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In 1912 Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noticed the same thing and proposed that the continents were once compressed into a single protocontinent which he called Pangaea (meaning "all lands"), and over time they have drifted apart into their current distribution.

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a). Let x denotes ACT scores.

ACT scores = $\{ 22,28,20,21,28,23,26 \} ; n = 7$

Mean, $(\overline x)=\frac{\sum x_i}{n}$

$=\frac{168}{7}=24$

Sample variance, $S^2=\frac{1}{n-1}\left(\sum x_i^2-n\overline x^2 \right)$

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b). To test whether or not variance of ACT scores of population (say $\sigma^2$ ) of the UTC students is significantly more than 8.

Consider the hypothesis :

$H_0: \sigma^2 \leq8$ vs $H_a: \sigma^2 >8$

It is a right tailed test and α = 0.05

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$x^2_{n-1} = \frac{(n-1)s^2}{\sigma^2}$

So test statics is

$x^2_7=\frac{(7-1)11}{8}$

$=\frac{6 \times 11}{8}$

= 8.25

Since our $\text{test statistics is less than the critical value }$ and it falls in a acceptation region, hence we fail to reject $H_0$ and conclude that variance is not greater than 8 significantly.