SCENARIO 12-13 Recent Studies Have Found That American Children Are More Obese

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-13
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-yearolds revealed the following with regards to weights and average number of hours a day spent watching television. We are interested in testing whether the mean number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent at 1% level of significance.
-Referring to Scenario 12-12,we want to test whether there is any relationship between average time spent watching TV and average time spent reading storybooks.Suppose the value of the test statistic was 164 (which is the correct answer) ,then we could conclude that

A) There is a connection between time spent reading storybooks and time spent watching TV.
B) There is no connection between time spent reading storybooks and time spent watching TV.
C) More time spent reading storybooks leads to less time spent watching TV.
D) More time spent watching TV leads to less time spent reading storybooks.