SCENARIO 12-13 Recent Studies Have Found That American Children Are More Obese

question 101

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-13
Recent studies have found that American children are more obese than in the past. The amount of time children spent watching television has received much of the blame. A survey of 100 ten-yearolds revealed the following with regards to weights and average number of hours a day spent watching television. We are interested in testing whether the mean number of hours spent watching TV and weights are independent at 1% level of significance.
-Referring to Scenario 12-13,how many children in the survey spend no more than 6 hours watching TV and are more than 10 lbs.underweight?

• A)5
• B)10
• C)15
• D)20

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