What statistical test should be used to investigate whether there is an association between choice of favorite sport to watch and gender for the population of students at the high school? What is the appropriate number of degrees of freedom the test should be based on?

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The conditions for inference were determined to be satisfied, and the appropriate statistical test was conducted. The value of the test statistic is 10.77. Is there convincing statistical evidence, at the ? = 0.05 significance level, of an association between choice of favorite sport to watch and gender for all students at the high school?

0.40 Male 0.35 Female 0.30 0.25 Relative Frequency 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.05 I O Baseball Basketball Football Gymnastics Swimming Sport