A Survey of the Opinions of Property Owners About a Street

Multiple Choice

A survey of the opinions of property owners about a street widening project was taken to determine whether the resulting opinion was related to the distance of front footage. A randomly selected sample of 100 property owners was contacted and the results are shown below. If the computed chi-square is 8.5, what is your decision at the 5% level of significance? What is your decision at the 1% level of significance?

A) Do not reject H₀at either the 5% or 1% levels of significance; opinion and property frontage are independent.
B) Reject Ho at the 5% level of significance, but not at the 1% level of significance.
C) Reject Ho at the 1% level of significance, but not at the 5% level of significance.
D) Reject Ho at both the 1% and 5% levels of significance; opinion and property frontage are related.