Two independent samples are drawn from two normal populations, where the population variances are assumed to be equal. The sampling distribution of the ratio of the two sample variances is:
A) a normal distribution.
B) Student t-distribution.
C) an F-distribution.
D) a chi-squared distribution.

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The sampling distribution of the ratio of two sample variances follows the F-distribution. This is known as the F-test for equality of variances.

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