A Sports Researcher Is Interested in Determining If There Is $E _ { 22 }$

question 27

Multiple Choice

A sports researcher is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the number of home team and visiting team wins and different sports. A random sample of 526 games is selected and the results are given below. Assuming the row and column classifications are independent, find an estimate for the expected cell count of cell $E _ { 22 }$ . $$\begin{array} { l | l l l l } & \text { Football } & \text { Basketball } & \text { Soccer } & \text { Baseball } \\\hline \text { Home team wins } & 38 & 155 & 24 & 86 \\\text { Visiting team wins } & 30 & 96 & 20 & 77\end{array}$$

• A) 106.4
• B) 18.7
• C) 144.6
• D) 25.3

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