Anita Cruz Recently Assumed Responsibility for a Large Investment Portfolio $\alpha$

Multiple Choice

Anita Cruz recently assumed responsibility for a large investment portfolio. She wonders whether industry sector influences investment objective. Her staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 200 common stocks: Using $\alpha$ =.01, appropriate decision is ___.

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