A Professor Collected Data to Determine Whether the Share of Her

question 29

Multiple Choice

A professor collected data to determine whether the share of her students who passed her course differed across her morning, afternoon, and evening classes.Samples of her recent students provided the following results: At a 1% significance level, what is the critical value, $\chi$ ²_c, for the hypothesis test?

• A)0.020
• B)5.991
• C)9.210
• D)11.345

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