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	15	34	25	74
Women	33	26	24	83
Column Total	48	60	49	157

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 =