Sam Hill, Director of Media Research, Is Analyzing Subscribers to the TravelWorld

Multiple Choice

Sam Hill, Director of Media Research, is analyzing subscribers to the TravelWorld magazine. He wonders whether subscriptions are influenced by the head of household's highest degree earned. His staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 300 households: Using $\alpha$ =.05, the appropriate decision is ___.

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