A high school offers math placement exams for incoming freshmen to place students into the appropriate math class during their freshman year. Three different middle schools were sampled and the following pass/fail results were found. Run a test for independence at the 0.10 level of significance.

School A

School B

School C

Pass

40

33

50

Fail

59

45

67

Hypotheses:

H₀:Pass/fail rates are _____ school.

H₁:Pass/fail rates are _____school.

Which of the following best fits the blank spaces above?

Question options:

independent of, dependent on

dependent of, dependent on

independent of; independent on

dependent of, independent on