A Financial Times/Harris Poll surveyed people in six countries to assess attitudes toward a variety of alternate forms of energy. The data in the following table are a portion of the poll’s findings concerning whether people favor or oppose the building of new nuclear power plants.

a. How large was the sample in this poll?

b. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether people’s attitude toward building new nuclear power plants is independent of country. What is your conclusion?

c. Using the percentage of respondents who “strongly favor” and “favor more than oppose,” which country has the most favorable attitude toward building new nuclear power plants? Which country has the least favorable attitude?

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Country Great United Response Britain France Italy Spain Germany States Strongly favor Favor more than oppose 141 161 298 133 128 204 348 366 309 222 272 326 Oppose more than favor Strongly oppose 381 334 219 311 322 316 217 215 219 443 389 174