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1. A researcher is studying the effects of choices made by students entering middle school on future SAT outcomes. The researcher records the math course
1. A researcher is studying the effects of choices made by students entering middle school on future SAT outcomes. The researcher records the math course that the student enrolls in upon entering the sixth grade. The researcher uses SAT data for the same group of students, grouping students by college readiness. The data is displayed below.
College Ready | Likely College Ready | Not College Ready | |
Grade-level | 65 | 71 | 81 |
Honors | 104 | 64 | 65 |
Accelerated | 25 | 15 | 13 |
Do the data suggest that sixth grade math enrollment and SAT college readiness are related? Use a 5% level of significance.
a) Write out a null and alternate hypothesis.
b) Calculate the chi-squared test statistic:
c) What is the degree of freedom?
d) Calculate the p-value:
e) Write a conclusion in context.
f)What is the expected count for a student who entered sixth grade in an honors math class who obtained "college ready" designation based on the SAT?
2. The number of people who survived a shipwreck based on class and sex is in the table. Is there enough evidence to show that the class and the sex of a person who survived the shipwreck are dependent? Test at the 10% level.
Class | Female | Male | Total |
1st | 137 | 64 | 201 |
2nd | 91 | 22 | 113 |
3rd | 75 | 55 | 130 |
total | 303 | 141 | 444 |
a) Calculate the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places. 2 =
b)Calculate the p-value. Round your answer to four decimal places. p-value =
3. Researchers watched groups of dolphins to determine what activities the dolphins partake in at certain times of the day. The numbers in the table represent the number of groups of dolphins that were partaking in an activity at certain times of days. Is there enough evidence to show that the activity and the time period are dependent for dolphins? Test at the 5% level.
Activity | Morning | Noon | Afternoon | Evening | Total |
Travel | 8 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 45 |
Feed | 30 | 4 | 1 | 53 | 88 |
Social | 27 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 84 |
Total | 65 | 13 | 17 | 122 | 217 |
a(Calculate the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places. 2 =
b)Calculate the p-value. Round your answer to four decimal places. p-value =
4. Background: Morris Saldov conducted a study in Eastern and Central Newfoundland in 1988 to examine public attitudes towards social spending. In particular, the study tried to determine if knowing someone on public assistance (yes, no) affected one's views on social spending (too little, about right, too much). The data from the study is summarized in the table below.
Yes | No | Total | |
Too little | 39 | 7 | 46 |
About right | 14 | 12 | 26 |
Too much | 7 | 7 | 14 |
Total | 60 | 26 | 86 |
Conduct a chi-square test for independence to determine if the association between knowing someone on public assistance and views on social spending is statistically significant.
a) Complete the following table of expected counts. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places).
yes | No | |
Too little | ||
About right | ||
Too much |
b)Compute the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) 2=
c)Compute the p-value. (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) pp-value =
5. Is a person's favorite pizza topping dependent on their gender? A random sample of pizzas ordered and the gender of the person who ordered were recorded and the results are found in the table below. Use this data to test whether or not pizza topping preference is independent of gender at the =0.10=0.10 level of significance.
Cheese | Pepperoni | Sausage | Mushroom | Veggie | |
Female | 27 | 28 | 7 | 8 | 16 |
Male | 15 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 4 |
a) Test statistic:
b) Give the P-Value ( 4 decimal places- if less than 0.001 answer 0)
c)what would be the appropriate conclusion?
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