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Recent Studies Have Found That American Children Are

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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.
 TV Hours  Weights 03366+ Total  More than 101ls. overweight 192030 Within 101bs. of normal weight 20151550 More than 10lbs. underweight 105520 Total 312940100\begin{array} { l | c l l | r } & { \text { TV Hours } } & \\\text { Weights } & 0 - 3 & 3 - 6 & 6 + & \text { Total } \\\hline \text { More than } 101 \mathrm { ls } \text {. overweight } & 1 & 9 & 20 & 30 \\\text { Within } 101 \mathrm { bs } \text {. of normal weight } & 20 & 15 & 15 & 50 \\\text { More than } 10 \mathrm { lbs } \text {. underweight } & 10 & 5 & 5 & 20 \\\hline \text { Total } & 31 & 29 & 40 & 100\end{array}
-Referring to Table 12-12, suppose the value of the test statistic was 30.00 (which is not the correct value) and the critical value at 1% level of significance was 10.00 (which is not the correct value) , which of the following conclusions would be correct?


A) We will reject the null and conclude that average number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent.
B) We will accept the null and conclude that average number of hours spent watching TV and weights are not independent.
C) We will reject the null and conclude that average number of hours spent watching TV and weights are not independent.
D) We will accept the null and conclude that average number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent.

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