SCENARIO 12-12 Parents Complain That Children Read Too Few Storybooks and Watch

question 56

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 12-12
Parents complain that children read too few storybooks and watch too much television nowadays.A
survey of 1,000 children reveals the following information on average time spent watching TV and
average time spent reading storybooks
-Referring to Scenario 12-12, suppose we want to constrain the probability of committing a
Type I error to 5% when testing whether there is any relationship between average time spent
Watching TV and average time spent reading story books, the critical value will be

• A) 5.991
• B) 7.378
• C) 12.592
• D) 14.449

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Definitions:

X Chromosomes

One of two sex chromosomes, present as two copies in females (XX) and one in males (XY), carrying genes that determine sexual development and contribute to other traits.

Differentiation

Process by which cells become specialized during development; occurs as different cells in an embryo begin to use different subsets of their DNA.

Subsets

Portions of a larger set that contain some or all elements of the original set, obeying the principle that every set is a subset of itself.

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the carrier of genetic information.