Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, Is Evaluating Consumer Acceptance $\alpha$

Multiple Choice

Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, is evaluating consumer acceptance of alternative toothpaste packages.She wonders whether acceptance is influenced by the age of the children in the household.Her staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 100 households. Using $\alpha$ = .05, the appropriate decision is ______________.

A) reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are not independent
B) do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are not independent
C) reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are independent
D) do not reject the null hypothesis and conclude the two variables are independent
E) do nothing