Anita Cruz Recently Assumed Responsibility for a Large Investment Portfolio $\alpha$

question 68

Multiple Choice

Anita Cruz recently assumed responsibility for a large investment portfolio.She wonders whether the industry sector influences investment objective.Her staff prepared the following contingency table from a random sample of 200 common stocks. Using $\alpha$ = .01, observed chi-square value is ______________.

• A)24.93
• B)8.17
• C)32.89
• D)6.59
• E)4.89

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