Does college major depend on gender? Researchers asked a group of college students about their majors. They also group the students by their gender. The data are recorded in the contingency table below, anda chi-square Test of Independence at the 1% significance level is performed.

	Arts	Humanities	Sciences	Row Total
Men	7	26	17	50
Women	25	18	16	59
Column Total	32	44	33	109

The null and alternative hypotheses are:

• H0: The two variables are independent, so gender does affect college major.
• Ha: The two variables are dependent, so gender does notaffect college major.

Compute the test statistic, rounded to one decimal place.

Provide your answer below:

test statistic =