Is your holiday turkey safe? A new federal survey found that 13% of turkeys are contaminated with

Is your holiday turkey safe? A €œnew federal survey found that 13% of turkeys are contaminated with the salmonella bacteria responsible for 1.3 million illnesses and about 500 deaths in a year in the US.€ Use the table that follows to determine if there is a significant difference in the contamination rate at three processing plants. One hundred turkeys were randomly selected from each of the processing lines at these three plants.

Is there a significant difference in the rate of salmonella contamination among these three processing plants? If there is a significant difference, describe the nature of these differences. Use α = .01.

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Salmonella Plant Present Sample Size 1 42 100 23 100 3 22 100