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

question 28

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-year-
olds 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, if there is no connection between weights and average number of hours spent watching TV, we should expect how many children to be spending no more than 6
Hours on average watching TV and are more than 10 lbs. underweight?

• A) 5.8
• B) 6.2
• C) 8
• D) 12

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