TABLE 12-12 Recent Studies Have Found That American Children Are More Obese

Multiple Choice

TABLE 12-12
Recent studies have found that American children are more obese than in the past. The amount of time children spent watching television has received much of the blame. A survey of 100 ten-year-olds revealed the following with regards to weights and average number of hours a day spent watching television. We are interested in testing whether the average number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent at 1% level of significance.

-Referring to Table 12-12, if there is no connection between weights and average number of hours spent watching TV, we should expect how many children to be spending 3-6 hours on average watching TV and are more than 10 lbs. underweight?

A) 5
B) 5.8
C) 6.2
D) 8