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

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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. 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 12-12,if the null hypothesis of no connection between time spent watching TV and time spent reading story books is true,how many children watching less than 2 hours of TV and reading no more than 2 hours of story books on average can we expect? A) 35.69 B) 227.23 C) 262.91 D) 969.75
-Referring to Scenario 12-12,if the null hypothesis of no connection between time spent watching TV and time spent reading story books is true,how many children watching less than 2 hours of TV and reading no more than 2 hours of story books on average can we expect?


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