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

question 142

Multiple Choice

TABLE 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 Table 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 storybooks, the critical value will be

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

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